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F. Employer shall notify an employee whose blood lead level Table 2 | Minimum Illumination Intensities In Foot-Candles
is at or above 40 µg/dl that medical removal protection with
benefits is required when a blood lead level is at or above Foot Candles Area of Operation
50 µg/dl. 1532.1(j)(2)(D)(2)
3 General construction area lighting
Note: Many physicians are now choosing to place employees low activity
on medical removal protection at blood lead levels above 20
µg/dl, rather than 50 µg/dl. Thus, employers should target for 5 Outdoor active construction areas,
the 20 µg/dl level as they evaluate the BLL results. concrete placement, excavation and
G. Feasible engineering and work practice controls must be waste areas, access ways, active storage
implemented to maintain employee exposures to lead below areas, loading platforms, refueling, and
the PELs. field maintenance areas
H. A written compliance program that details how lead 5 Indoors: Warehouses, corridors, hallways,
exposures will be controlled is required. 1532.1(e) stairways, and exit-ways
I. On jobs at residential and public-access buildings, workers 10 General construction plant and shops
whose exposures to lead measure above the PELs and (e.g., batch plants, screening plants,
their supervisors must receive state-approved training and mechanical and electrical equipment
certification by the California Department of Health Services.
rooms, carpenter shops, rigging lofts
J. Records of air monitoring, blood lead testing, and medical and active storerooms, barracks or living
removal must be maintained. 1532.1(n) quarters, locker or dressing rooms, mess
halls and indoor toilets and workrooms)
K. Employers who conduct lead work listed in 1532.1(d)(2) must
notify the Division, in writing, at least 24 hours before the start 10 Nighttime highway construction work
of work. 1532.1(p)
30 First-aid stations, infirmaries, and offices
L. The “LEAD-WORK PRE-JOB NOTIFICATION” form with
required information is available from Cal/OSHA at
www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/ReqPermitRegCertNotificatio.htm B. Nighttime highway construction work lighting shall be
The form is available at provided within the work zone to illuminate the task(s) in
www.dir.ca.gov/DOSH/leadnotification.pdf a manner that will minimize glare to work crews and not
interfere with the vision of oncoming motorists. 1523(b)
Lighting
Lock-out/Block-out Procedures
A. Proper illumination is important in all construction activities.
Construction areas, ramps, corridors, offices, shops, and Every year many employees are injured or lose their lives when
storage areas, etc., shall be lighted to not less than the the equipment they are repairing or maintaining is turned on
minimum illumination intensities in the following table while by a coworker or when potential energy is released while the
work is in progress: 1523(a) employee is in harm’s way of the equipment. Employees shall
be trained and made familiar with the safe use and maintenance
of all machinery or equipment. To prevent such injuries SOs
require that a lockout/ block-out procedure must be followed.
A. For cleaning, repairing, servicing, setting up or adjusting
operations the following applies: GISO 3314
1. Cleaning, servicing, or adjusting operations 3314(c)

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