STANDARDS PRESENTATION Attachment
No. 1 TO Page 1 of 3 CALIFORNIA OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH STANDARDS BOARD PROPOSED STATE STANDARD, TITLE 8, CHAPTER 4 Add Section 3395 as follows:
(a) Scope and Application. This section applies to the
control of risk of occurrence of heat illness. This section is not intended to
exclude the application of other sections of Title 8, including, but not
necessarily limited to, sections 1230(a), 1512, 1524, 3203, 3363, 3400, 3439,
3457, 6251, 6512, 6969, 6975, 8420 and 8602(e). This section applies to all outdoor
places of employment at those times when the environmental risk factors for
heat illness, as defined in (b), are present.
Note No. 1: The measures required
here may be integrated into the employer’s Injury and Illness Program required
by section 3203.
Note No. 2: This standard is enforceable by the Division of
Occupational Safety and Health pursuant to Labor Code sections 6308 and 6317
and any other statutes conferring enforcement powers upon the Division. It is a
violation of Labor Code sections 6310, 6311, and 6312 to discharge or
discriminate in any other manner against employees for exercising their rights
under this or any other provision offering occupational safety and health
protection to employees.
(b) Definitions.
"Acclimatization" means temporary adaptation of
the body to work in the heat that occurs gradually when a person is exposed to
it. Acclimatization peaks in most people within four to fourteen days of
regular work for at least two hours per day in the heat.
"Heat Illness" means a group of serious
medical conditions condition resulting from the body's
inability to cope with a particular heat load, and includes heat cramps, heat
exhaustion, heat syncope and heat stroke.
“Environmental risk factors for heat illness” means working
conditions that affect create the possibility that heat
illness could occur, including air temperature, relative humidity, radiant heat
from the sun and other sources, conductive heat sources such as the ground, air
movement, workload severity and duration, protective clothing and personal
protective equipment worn by employees.
“Personal risk factors for heat illness” means factors such
as an individual’s age, degree of acclimatization, health, water consumption,
alcohol consumption, caffeine consumption, and use of prescription medications
that affect the body’s water retention or other physiological responses to
heat.
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