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booklet from Cal/OSHA at: C. Controlling Employer is an employer who is responsible, by
contract or through actual practice, for safety and health
English: conditions at the work site and who has the authority to
www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/dosh_publications/lockout.pdf correct the violation.
Spanish: D. Correcting Employer is an employer who has the
www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/dosh_publications/lockout_sp.pdf responsibility to correct the violative condition.
2. Cal/OSHA’s Lockout/Tagout for Employers eTool at
www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/etools/08-003/index.htm
Personal Protective Equipment
Machine Guarding When a hazard cannot be eliminated or controlled by
engineering or administrative controls as required by Cal/OSHA
Machine guarding is required on all moving machine parts when regulations, workers must be protected by personal protective
the operation of a machine or accidental contact with the parts equipment (PPE). Employers must ensure that all required
could injure the operator or other workers. The following are safety devices and safeguards, whether employer or employee
some of the major moving machine parts that must be guarded: provided, comply with the applicable Cal/OSHA regulations and
are maintained in a safe, sanitary condition. Employers must
• Gears, sprockets, and chain drives. 4075(a) perform hazard assessments for all jobs and select the proper
• Belt and pulley drives. 4070(a) PPE for those hazards. Employers also must ensure that
employees have an understanding of all of the PPE-related
• Belt conveyor head and tail pulleys. 3999(b) information listed in 3380(f)(4). Workers must be protected by
• Screw conveyors. 3999(a) PPE as follows:
• Exposed shafts and shaft ends 4050(a), 4051(a) A. Eye and face protection is required when there is an inherent
risk of eye injury from flying particles, injurious chemicals, or
• Collars and couplings. 4050(a) harmful light rays. 3382
• Hazardous revolving or reciprocating parts. 4002(a) B. Foot protection is required for workers who are exposed

to foot injury from hot, corrosive, or injurious substances; from
falling objects; or from crushing or penetrating actions. Foot
Multi-Employer Worksites protection is also required for employees who work in
abnormally wet locations. 3385
Multi-employer work sites are work locations where more than C. Hand protection is required for workers who are exposed to
one employer and his or her employees work, usually but not skin absorption of harmful substances, cuts or lacerations,
necessarily at the same time. Most construction sites are multi- abrasions, punctures, chemical burns, thermal burns,
employer work sites, and therefore more than one employer radioactive materials, and harmful temperature extremes.
is responsible for safety at these work sites. Each employer is 3384, 2320.2(a)
required to notify the other employers of hazards and to guard
against exposing their own employees as well as all other D. Body protection is required for workers who are exposed to
employees on the site. injurious materials. These workers must wear appropriate
body protection and clothing appropriate for their work.
The four categories of employers who may be cited by Cal/ 1522(a)
OSHA for employee exposures to violative conditions are
identified in 336.10 and 336.11. 1. Loose sleeves, ties, frills, lapels, cuffs, or other loose
clothing may not be worn around machinery in which it
A. Exposing Employer is an employer whose employees were could become entangled. 1522(b)
exposed to the violative condition at the work site regardless 2. Workers must not wear clothing saturated or impregnated
of whether that employer created the violative condition.

corrosives, irritants, or oxidizing

B. Creating Employer is an employer who actually created the agents. 1522(c)
violative condition.

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