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CA SB1167
Bill
AI Summary
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Requires the Division of Occupational Safety and Health to propose a heat illness and injury prevention standard for indoor workers to the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board by January 1, 2019.
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Standard must be based on environmental temperatures, work activity levels, and other factors, with consideration of the 2016 Threshold Limit Values and Biological Exposure Indices from the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists.
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Allows the division and standards board discretion to limit application of high heat provisions to certain industry sectors.
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Specifies that no state reimbursement to local agencies or school districts is required because costs result from changes to crime definitions under existing law.
Legislative Description
Employment safety: indoor workers: heat regulations.
Last Action
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 839, Statutes of 2016.
9/29/2016