California Code of Regulations
Title 8 - Industrial Relations
Division 1 - Department of Industrial Relations
Chapter 4 - Division of Industrial Safety
Subchapter 4 - Construction Safety Orders
Article 29 - Erection and Construction
Section 1712 - Requirements for Impalement Protection
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) Scope. This section applies to all work sites and locations where employees work around or over exposed, projecting, reinforcing steel or other similar projections.
(b) Definitions.
Job-Built. As used in this section, protective covers and troughs usually constructed at the job-site of wood or other materials of equal or greater strength and designed specifically for covering exposed ends of reinforcing steel or other similar projections at a specific job-site.
Protective Covers. Manufactured or job-built apparatus designed to cover exposed ends of reinforcing steel or other similar projections so as to prevent impalement.
Troughs. Manufactured or job-built protective covers designed to cover two or more exposed ends of reinforcing steel or other similar projections so as to prevent impalement, and which meet the applicable requirements in subsection (d).
(c) Protection from Reinforcing Steel and Other Similar Projections.
(d) Protective Covers, Specifications, Testing and Approval.
EXCEPTION: Job-built troughs as depicted in Appendix Plate C-25 may be used as a substitute for engineered or manufactured protective covers when employees are working at heights not greater than 6 feet above grade or other working surface.
NOTE: The drop test requirement in subsection (d)(4)(C) applies to protective covers used to prevent employee impalement where the employee is exposed to fall heights of up to 7 1/2 feet.
1. Renumbering from section 1713 filed 11-1-73; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 73, No. 44).
2. Amendment of subsection (a) and new subsections (b), (c) and (d) filed 2-19-75; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 75, No. 8).
3. Amendment of subsection (a) filed 4-27-79; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 79, No. 17).
4. Amendment filed 6-21-85; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 85, No. 25).
5. Repealer of subsection (a) and adoption of subsections (a)-(d)(5), relettering and amendment of former subsection (b) to subsection (e), relettering of former subsection (c) to subsection (f), and relettering of former subsection (d) to subsection (g) filed 11-8-93; operative 12-8-93 (Register 93, No. 46).
6. Amendment of subsection (e) filed 7-30-97; operative 8-29-97 (Register 97, No. 31).
7. Amendment of section heading and section filed 2-3-2004; operative 3-4-2004 (Register 2004, No. 6).
8. Amendment of section heading and repealer of subsections (e)-(f)(2) filed 10-26-2017; operative 1-1-2018 (Register 2017, No. 43).
Note: Authority cited: Section 142.3, Labor Code. Reference: Section 142.3, Labor Code.