Title LAB, California Lab. Code

Except as provided in this chapter, an enrollee within a given economic opportunity program shall have no right to receive compensation from sponsoring or participating agencies, entities, and institutions, public or private. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1685.)

Compensation shall be furnished an enrollee for injury or to dependents if injury causes death, suffered within or without the state occurring in the course of his duties for a sponsoring agency within an economic opportunity program if the following conditions occur: (a) Where, …

Where the conditions of compensation exist, the right to recover such compensation pursuant to the provisions of this chapter is the exclusive remedy for injury or death of an enrollee against the sponsoring agency, or the participating agency. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1685.)

Insofar as not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, all of the provisions of this division shall pertain to enrollees and their dependents and the furnishing of compensation benefits thereto. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1685.)

Where liability for compensation exists, such compensation shall be provided as limited by this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1685.)

If an enrollee suffers injury or death in the performance of his duties under an economic opportunity program, then, irrespective of his remuneration from this or other employment, his average weekly earnings for the purpose of determining temporary and permanent disability indem…

If the injury sustained by an enrollee causes permanent disability, the percentage of disability to total disability shall be determined for the occupation of a laborer of like age by applying the schedule for the determination of the percentage of permanent disabilities prepared…

In addition to death benefit in the event of fatal injury, the reasonable expenses of the enrollee’s burial shall be paid not to exceed six hundred dollars ($600). (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1685.)

Should the United States government or any agent thereof, pursuant to federal statute, rule or regulations furnish benefits to enrollees or dependents of enrollees under an economic opportunity program, then the amount of indemnity which an enrollee or his dependents are entitled…

If the United States government or any agent thereof furnishes medical treatment to an injured enrollee, the enrollee will have no right to receive the same or similar treatment under this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1685.)

If the furnishing of medical treatment by the United States government or its agent takes the form of reimbursement of the enrollee, he shall have no right to receive the same or similar treatment under this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1685.)

If the furnishing of compensation benefits to an enrollee or his dependents under this chapter prevents such enrollee or his dependents from receiving benefits under the provisions of federal statute, rule or regulations, then the enrollee or his dependents shall have no right an…

(a) This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the “California Worker Freedom from Employer Intimidation Act.” (b) As used in this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Employee” means any individual who performs services for and under the control and direction of…

(a) Any employer who causes or allows the use of any flammable or combustible material for the installation acceptance pressure test of any gas houseline or piping shall be conclusively presumed to be maintaining an unsafe place of employment. (b) Any employer who causes or allow…

It shall be the duty of the standards board to determine by the maximum allowable standards of emissions of contaminants from portable and from mobile internal combustion engines used inside factories, manufacturing plants, warehouses, buildings and other enclosed structures, whi…

All portable and all mobile internal combustion engines that are used inside factories, manufacturing plants, warehouses, buildings and other enclosed structures shall be equipped with a certified exhaust purifier device after the certification of the device by the State Air Reso…

Sections 6701 and 6702 shall apply to all portable and all mobile internal combustion engines used inside factories, manufacturing plants, warehouses, buildings and other enclosed structures unless the operation of such an engine used inside a particular factory, plant, warehouse…

All crawler and wheel cranes with cable-controlled booms and with rated lifting capacity of more than 10 tons sold or operated in this state shall be equipped with boomstops that meet standards that shall be established therefor by the standards board. (Added by Stats. 1973, Ch. …

No contract for public works involving an estimated expenditure in excess of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), for the excavation of any trench or trenches five feet or more in depth, shall be awarded unless it contains a clause requiring submission by the contractor and ac…

Regulations of the department requiring the shoring, bracing, or sloping of excavations, or which contain similar requirements for excavations, shall only apply to the excavation of swimming pools where a reasonable examination by a qualified person reveals recognizable condition…

For the purposes of subdivision (a) of Section 6500, only one permit shall be required for a project involving several trenches or excavations. The provisions of Section 6500 shall not apply to the construction of trenches or excavations for the purpose of performing emergency re…

Whenever the state, a county, city and county, or city issues a call for bids for the construction of a pipeline, sewer, sewage disposal system, boring and jacking pits, or similar trenches or open excavations, which are five feet or deeper, such call shall specify that each bid …

Every contractor on a construction project, including but not limited to any public works, shall maintain adequate emergency first aid treatment for his employees. As used in this section, “adequate” shall be construed to mean sufficient to comply with the Federal Occupational Sa…

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that Valley Fever is caused by a microscopic fungus known as Coccidioides immitis, which lives in the top 2 to 12 inches of soil in many parts of the state. When soil is disturbed by activities such as digging, grading, or driving, or is dis…

(a) At every place of employment where explosives are used in the course of employment, there shall be a person licensed pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 7990) of Part 9 of Division 5, to supervise and visually direct the blasting operation. (b) Fo…

(a) The division shall develop and administer an oral and written examination for persons using explosives, as defined in Section 6710, while engaged in snow avalanche blasting. Any person engaged in snow avalanche blasting shall pass this examination prior to being licensed by t…

(a) The standards board shall, no later than December 1, 1991, adopt an occupational safety and health standard for field sanitation. The standard shall comply with all of the following: (1) The standard shall be at least as effective as the federal field sanitation standard cont…

For the purposes of this division, “lead-related construction work” means any of the following: (a) Any construction, alteration, painting, demolition, salvage, renovation, repair, or maintenance of any building or structure, including preparation and cleanup, that, by using or d…

(a) On or before February 1, 1994, the division shall propose to the standards board for its review and adoption, a standard that protects the health and safety of employees who engage in lead-related construction work and meets all requirements imposed by the federal Occupationa…

Notwithstanding any other provision in law or regulation, the work performed under any construction contract, including subcontracts thereof, on the Golden Gate Bridge for the Suspension Bridge Seismic Retrofit Project that is awarded after January 1, 2025, and before December 31…

The division shall submit to the board a rulemaking proposal to revise the lead standards of the general industry safety orders, found at Section 5198 of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations, and the construction safety orders, found at Section 1532.1 of Title 8 of the C…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any test procedures adopted by a state agency to determine compliance with vapor emission standards, by vapor recovery systems of cargo tanks on tank vehicles used to transport gasoline, shall not require any person to climb upon the ca…

The Legislature reaffirms its concern over the prevalence of repetitive motion injuries in the workplace and reaffirms the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board’s continuing duty to carry out Section 6357. (Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 615, Sec. 12. Effective January 1, 200…

By January 1, 2019, the division shall propose to the standards board for the board’s review and adoption a standard that minimizes heat-related illness and injury among workers working in indoor places of employment. The standard shall be based on environmental temperatures, wor…

(a) The heat illness prevention standards set forth in Section 3395 of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations shall be known, and may be cited, as the Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez heat illness standard. (b) The division, before December 1, 2025, shall submit to the standar…

(a) (1) The standards board, before December 1, 2025, shall draft a rulemaking proposal to consider revising Section 1526 of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations to require at least one single-user toilet facility on all construction jobsites, designed for employees who …

(a) The division, before December 1, 2027, shall submit a draft rulemaking proposal to revise Sections 1512 and 3400 of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations to require first aid materials in a workplace to include naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist appro…

(a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) The term “agricultural employee” means a person employed in any of the following: (A) An agricultural occupation, as defined in Wage Order No. 14 of the Industrial Welfare Commission. (B) An in…