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C. Elevating work platforms, such as vertical towers and scissor Administrative Requirements
lifts, are designed to raise and hold a work platform in a
substantially vertical axis. 3637, and 3642 Employers must meet certain administrative requirements
D. Industrial trucks, such as rough terrain forklifts, may be used to that may include Cal/OSHA notification, specific registration,
elevate and position workers under specific conditions. 3657 permitting, certification, recordkeeping, and the posting of
information in the workplace. Some of these requirements
E. Elevators (construction) are required as follows: depend on the construction trade or type of activity in which
1. For structures or buildings 60 ft. or more above ground employers are involved. The more common requirements are
level or 48 ft. below ground level. 1630(a) listed below:
2. At demolition sites of seven or more stories or 72 ft. or A. Documents required at the job site include the following:
more in height. 1735(r)
1. Injury and Illness Prevention Program: Program document
Note: Elevators must be inspected and tested in the may be kept in the office.
presence of a DOSH representative before use. A permit 1509(a), and 3203(a)
from DOSH is required before operating. 1604.29(a)
2. Code of Safe Practices. 1509(b)
F. Personnel hoists may be used at special construction sites,
such as bridges and dams, if approved by a registered 3. All Cal/OSHA-required permits. 341
engineer. 1604.1(c) 4. All Cal/OSHA-required certifications. Various
G. Ladders can be used to gain access to working surfaces 5. Respiratory Protection Program for all work sites where
above and below ground level under certain conditions. 1675 respirators are mandatory. 5144(c)
H. Ramps and runways provide means of access for foot or 6. Heat illness prevention. 3395
vehicle traffic. 1623, 1624, and 1625
7. Fall protection plan, if required. 1671.1
I. Stairways must be installed in buildings that have two or more
stories or are 24 ft. or more in height. 1629(a)(1) B. Postings required at the job site include the following:
1. For buildings of two or three stories, at least one stairway is 1. Cal/OSHA poster “Safety and Health Protection on the
required. 1629(a)(4) Job.” 340
2. For buildings of more than three stories, two or more 2. Code of Safe Practices. 1509(b), and (c)
stairways are required. 1629(a)(4) 3. Emergency phone numbers. 1512(e)
J. The following routes of access are prohibited: 4. Employee access to records notification to inform
1. Endless belt-type manlifts. 1604.1(a)(3) employees that they have the right to gain access to
medical and exposure records. 3204(g)
2. Single-cleat ladders more than 30 ft. or double-cleat
ladders more than 24 ft. long. 1629(c) 5. Operating permit for air tanks. 461(a)
3. Cleats nailed to studs. 1629(b) 6. Operating rules for industrial trucks and tow tractors
(if used), where employees operate forklifts. 3664, and 3650(c)
4. Rides on loads, hooks, slings, or concrete buckets of
derricks, hoists, or cranes. 1718(a), and 1720(c)(3) 7. Authorized access at controlled access zones (CAZs).
1671.1, and 1671.2
8. Variance process. 411.3
9. Cal/OSHA registration. 341.4, and 341.10
10. Citations. 332.4

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