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• CCR Title 8

After proceedings held in accordance with and pursuant to authority vested in Sections 142, 142.3 and 142.4 of the Labor Code to implement, interpret, or make specific, the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board, by a majority vote, adopted additions, revisions or deletions to the California Code of Regulations, Title 8, Chapter 4.

The following is a list of approved regulations updated monthly. Click on the name of the regulation(s) to access the language in strikeout/underline form and the adoption, approval and effective dates. Strikeout language indicates language deleted from the proposed Title 8 regulation and underlined language indicates language added to the proposed Title 8 regulation.

For more information regarding the development of Occupational Safety and Health regulations, e-mail oshsb@dir.ca.gov.

• Sections 403, 404, 405.1, 407-407.3, 411, 411.1, 411.2, 412.2, 418 and 420
  Variances from occupational safety and health standards and appeals from temporary variance decisions (effective 02/08/03)

• Sections 421, 422, 422.1, 423, 424.1-424.5, 425.1, 425.2, 426, 427.1-427.4 and 428
  Hearings and decisions regarding variances from occupational safety and health standards (effective 07/26/03)

• Sections 451 and 527
  Liquefied natural gas (effective 02/24/03)

• Section 769
  Boiler installations (effective 02/08/03)
  
  
• Section 1523
  Illumination for nighttime highway construction projects (effective 04/12/04)

• Section 1527
  Washing facilities at construction jobsites (effective 02/05/03)

• Section 1529(g)
  Asbestos control measure (effective 03/22/04)

• Sections 1532, 1532.1, 1535, 5198, 5200, 5201, 5207, 5211, 5214, 5218, and 5220
  Medical evaluations for respirator users(effective 8/30/03)
  
  
• Section 1593
  Securing loads on haulage vehicles (effective 7/28/04)
  
  
• Sections 1600 and 1601
  Pile driving and methods of unloading piles

• Sections 1604.5(c)(3) and 1604.6
  Construction hoistway doors and door locking devices (effective 02/27/03)
  
  
• Sections 1632 and 3212
  Guarding of skylights (effective 8/6/04)

• Sections 1635 and 1710
  Structural steel erection safety standards (effective 08/02/03)

• Sections 1637 and 1640
  Scaffold design and use (effective 08/10/03)

• Section 1712
  Hazards associated with reinforcing steel and other similar projections (effective 3/4/04)
  
  
• Section 1716.2
  Fall protection for residential type framing activities (effective 8/6/04)

• Sections 2561.31, 2561.32, 4885, and 5022
  Monorails hoists, monorail cranes and track (effective 09/24/03)

• Sections 3016, 3120.6 and 3122.0
  Elevator pits (effective 8/27/03)

• Sections 3195.1 through 3195.14
  Inspection of permanent amusement rides, including aquatic devices (effective 07/12/03)

• Section 3273
  Protection from falling objects (effective 09/25/03)

• Sections 3279 and 3280
  Portable ladders (effective 04/25/03)
  
  
• Section 3301
  Pressure testing of pipes and other containers (effective 8/6/04)
  
  
• Section 3427
  Tree climbing and access emergency (effective 4/29/04)

• Section 3427(a)
  Tree work - safe work procedures (effective 8/26/04)

• Section 3437 and new section 3458
  Fall protection for date palm operations (effective 09/03/03)

• Section 3441(a)
  Operation of agricultural equipment (effective 01/01/03)
  
  
• Section 3657
  Elevating employees with industrial trucks (effective 9/26/04)

• Section 3663
  Maintenance of industrial trucks (effective 11/29/03)

• Section 4821(a)
  Gas systems piping for welding (effective 07/02/03)

• Section 4968
  Tower crane pre-deceleration devices(effective 11/29/03)

• Sections 5001(b) and 5008(b)
  Use of signals and operating practicces-crane

• Section 5006 and new section 5006.1
  Crane operator qualifications and certification (effective 08/02/03)

• Sections 5035(b) and new section 5035(c)
  Repair and testing of crane booms and boom extensions (effective 11/19/03)
  
  
• Section 5147
  Respiratory protection for m. tuberculosis (effective 07/20/04)

• Section 5148
  Prohibition of smoking in the workplace (effective 03/18/04)

• Sections 5161 and 5164(a), (b), (c), and (d)
  Storage of hazardous substances (effective 06/28/03)
  
  
• Section 5194
  Hazard comunication amendments (effective 7/6/04)

• Section 5214
  Inorganic arsenic (effective 06/26/03)
  
  
• Section 6283(a)
  Leg protection for portable chain saw operations

• Various sections thoughout title 8
  Explosives (effective 8/10/03)

Click here for 2002 approved regulations

Click here for 2001 approved regulations