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Occupational Safety & Health Standards Board (OSHSB)

Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board Approved General Industry Safety Orders standards (§§ 3200-6184)

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.

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

Articles 113 to 123 Explosives (effective August 10, 2003)

New Article 154 Title 8 Reform CASO/GISO (effective May 4, 2006)

Sections 3210 and 3212 Fall Protection at Ladderway and Stairway Entrances and Openings (effective January 7, 2005)

Section 3241(a) Live Loads (effective August 10, 2002)

Section 3241.1 Working Warehouse (effective October 31, 2004)

Section 3251 Refrigerator Vehicles (effective April 4, 2002)

Section 3273 Protection from Falling Objects (effective September 25, 2003)

Sections 3279 and 3280 Portable Ladders (effective April 25, 2003)

Sections 3291, 3292, 3295, and 3296 Load Sustaining Devices Used in Window Cleaning and Building Maintenance Operations (effective April 26, 2007)

Section 3301 Pressure Testing of Pipes and Other Containers (effective August 6, 2004)

Section 3314 The Control of Hazardous Energy (effective January 6, 2005)

Section 3324 Horizontal Sliding Gates (effective November 22, 2007)

Sections 3340(c) and (d) Accident Prevention Signs (effective December 8, 2001)

Section 3362 General Sanitation Requirements for Mold (effective September 4, 2002)

Section 3380 Personal Protective Equipment (effective January 29, 2005)

Section 3381 Head Protection (effective October 30, 2004)

Section 3385 Update of National Consensus Standard Reference for Protective Footwear (effective January 26, 2007)

Section 3395 Heat Illness Prevention (Emergency standard effective December 20, 2005; Permanent standard effective July 27, 2006)

Section 3427 Tree Climbing and Access (Emergency standard effective August 26, 2004; Permanent standard effective January 24, 2005)

Section 3427(a) Tree Work--Safe Work Procedures (effective April 1, 2004)

Section 3437 and New Section 3458 Fall Protection for Date Palm Operations (effective September 3, 2003)

Section 3441(a) Operation of Agricultural Equipment (effective January 1, 2003)

Section 3456 Hand Weeding, Hand Thinning, and Hand Hot Capping Operations in Agriculture (Emergency standard effective 10/07/04; Permanent standard effective April 29, 2005)

Section 3458.1 Date Palm Operations--Use of Special Ladders (effective November 2, 2007)

Sections 3465(a), 3472, and 3475 Marine Terminals (effective March 6, 2001)

Section 3469 Powered Industrial Truck Training for Marine Terminal Operations (effective October 27, 2001)

Sections 3472(b), 4884, 4886, 4907(b)(2), 4924(b), and 4965(a) Cranes and Other Hoisting Equipment With Regard to Manufacture Dates; and the Use of Load Indicating and Load Moment Devices (effective February 2, 2002)

Section 3482 Bulk Storage of Loose Material (effective March 10, 2001)

Sections 3482, 5156, and 5178 Grain Handling (effective December 14, 2006)

Sections 3541 through 3546, 3548, and 3549 Automotive Lifts (effective July 28, 2005)

Sections 3637 through 3640, 3642, and 3646 Mast-Climbing Work Platforms (effective March 29, 2006)

Section 3641(f) and 3648(o) Orchard Man-Lifts (effective March 10, 2002)

Section 3646(e) Working From or on Top of an Elevated Work Platform Guardrail (effective February 22, 2001)

Sections 3649 and 3651(a) Low Profile Tractors (effective July 20, 2005)

Section 3650 Industrial Trucks, General (Blue Signal Protection) (effective January 30, 2008)

Sections 3650 and 3664 Operating Rules for Industrial Trucks (effective June 27, 2002)

Section 3650 Labeling, Design, and Construction of Powered Industrial Trucks (effective December 2, 2006)

Section 3656 Order Pickers and Stock Pickers (effective November 1, 2000)

Section 3657 Elevating Employees with Industrial Trucks (effective September 26, 2004)

Section 3663 Maintenance of Industrial Trucks (effective November 29, 2003)

Sections 3700 and 3702 Seatbelt Requirements for Farm Vehicles (effective July 20, 2002)

Section 4188(b) Specific Definitions for Power Operated Presses (effective June 7, 2001)

Section 4296 Automatic Starting of Woodworking Machines and Equipment After Power Failure (effective October 5, 2001)

Section 4324 Dust Collection Systems for Woodworking Machines and Equipment (effective December 5, 2007)

Section 4543 Guarding of Meat Cutting Band Saw Blades (effective July 1, 2007)

Section 4650(d) Compressed Gas (Oxygen) Cylinder Storage (effective January 4, 2006)

Section 4794, 4848, and 4850 Gas and Electric Welding Systems and Operations (effective January 2, 2003)

Section 4799 Oxygen or Fuel-Gas Operator Training Instructions (effective August 30, 2002)

Section 4821(a) Gas Systems Piping for Welding (effective July 2, 2003)

Section 4855 Definition of Trolley Suspended Hoists (effective July 3, 2002)

Section 4884 Hammerhead Tower Cranes (effective November 9, 2007)

Section 4889 Warning Devices for Overhead Cranes (effective January 4, 2001)

Section 4920 Boom-Type Mobile Cranes (effective October 25, 2006)

Section 4966 Erection and Dismantling of Tower Cranes (effective September 20, 2000)

Section 4968 Tower Crane Pre-Deceleration Devices (effective November 29, 2003)

Section 4968 and New Section 5022.1 Tower Crane Warning Devices and Crane Test Weight Requirements (effective September 1, 2005)

Section 5001 Cranes and Other Hoisting Equipment--Signals (effective June 22, 2007)

Sections 5001(b) and 5008(b) Use of Signals and Operating Practices--Crane (effective June 19, 2004)

Sections 5004 and 5047, 8379 Use of Personnel Suspended Platforms from Crane or Derrick (effective May 24, 2007)

Section 5006 and New Section 5006.1 Crane Operator Qualifications and Certification (effective August 2, 2003)

Section 5006.1 Mobile and Tower Crane Operator Certification, Exception No. 2--Electric Line Trucks (effective January 14, 2007)

Section 5031 Crane Inspection Records (effective December 29, 2001)

Section 5034 Crane and Derrick Adjustments and Repairs (effective July 3, 2002)

Section 5035(b) and New Section 5035(c) Repair and Testing of Crane Booms and Boom Extensions (effective November 19, 2003)

Sections 5135, 5198, 5200, 5201, 5207, 5211, 5214, 5218, and 5220 Medical Evaluations for Respirator Users (effective August 30, 2003)

Section 5144 Controlled Negative Pressure (CNP) Redon Fit Testing Procedures (effective January 26, 2005)

Section 5144 Fit-Testing for Tuberculosis (Emergency standard effective 10/07/04; Permanent standard effective March 7, 2005)

Section 5147 Respiratory Protection for M. Tuberculosis (effective July 20, 2004)

Section 5148 Prohibition of Smoking in the Workplace (effective March 18, 2004)

Section 5154.1 Ventilation Requirements for Laboratory-Type Hood Operations (effective August 30, 2006)

Section 5155 Airborne Contaminants (effective February 3, 2001)

Sections 5155 and 5206 Hexavalent Chromium (effective September 19, 2006)

Section 5155 Methyl Hydrazine (effective October 31, 2004)

Section 5155 Airborne Contaminants (effective November 3, 2004)

Section 5155 Airborne Contaminants (effective July 6, 2006)

Sections 5157, 5158, and 8355 Confined Spaces (effective May 25, 2001)

Sections 5161 and 5164(a), (b), and (c) Storage of Hazardous Substances (effective June 28, 2003)

Sections 5161 and 5178 Grain Handling Facilities (effective December 14, 2006)

Section 5189 Process Safety Management of Acutely Hazardous Materials Listing of Sulfur Dioxide (effective July 18, 2002)

Sections 5190, 5198, 5200, 5202, 5207, 5208, 5210, 5211, 5212, 5213, 5214, 5217, 5218, 5220, and 3858 Assigned Protection Factors for Respirators (effective March 6, 2007)

Section 5193 Bloodborne Pathogens (effective August 3, 2001)

Section 5194 Hazard Communication Amendments (effective July 6, 2004)

Sections 5203 and 5206 Carcinogen Report of Use Requirements for Chromium VI (effective November 29, 2007)

Section 5214 Inorganic Arsenic (effective June 26, 2003)

New Sections 5349, 5350, 5351, 5352, 5353, 5354, and 5355.1, and Sections 5355, 5356, 5357, and 5358 Snow Avalanche Blasting (effective November 9, 2007)

Section 6184 Employee Alarm Systems (effective September 24, 2005)