Bill Text: CA SB1167 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Employment safety: indoor workers: heat regulations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-09-29 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 839, Statutes of 2016. [SB1167 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB1167-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1167	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  839
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 26, 2016
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 24, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 19, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 16, 2016
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 31, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Mendoza

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act to add Section 6720 to the Labor Code, relating to employee
safety.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1167, Mendoza. Employment safety: indoor workers: heat
regulations.
   Under existing law, the California Occupational Safety and Health
Act of 1973, the Division of Occupational Safety and Health
investigates complaints that a workplace is not safe and may issue
orders necessary to ensure employee safety. Under existing law,
certain violations of that act or a standard, order, or special order
authorized by the act are a crime. Under existing law, the division
has adopted regulations establishing a heat illness prevention
standard for outdoor workers.
   This bill would require the division, by January 1, 2019, to
propose to the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board for the
board's review and adoption, a heat illness and injury prevention
standard applicable to workers working in indoor places of
employment. The bill would specify that this requirement does not
prohibit the division from proposing, or the standards board from
adopting, a standard that limits the application of high heat
provisions to certain industry sectors. Because this bill would
expand the definition of an existing crime, it would impose a
state-mandated local program.
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 6720 is added to the Labor Code, to read:
   6720.  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, work activity levels, and other factors.
In developing the standard, the division shall take into
consideration heat stress and heat strain guidelines in the 2016
Threshold Limit Values and Biological Exposure Indices developed by
the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists. This
section does not prohibit the division from proposing, or the
standards board from adopting, a standard that limits the application
of high heat provisions to certain industry sectors.
  SEC. 2.  No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school
district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or
infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty
for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the
Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the
meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution.