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 3 - General
Section 1511 - General Safety Precautions
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) No worker shall be required or knowingly permitted to work in an unsafe place, unless for the purpose of making it safe and then only after proper precautions have been taken to protect the employee while doing such work.
(b) Prior to the presence of its employees, the employer shall make a thorough survey of the conditions of the site to determine, so far as practicable, the predictable hazards to employees and the kind and extent of safeguards necessary to prosecute the work in a safe manner in accordance with the relevant parts of Plate A-2-a and b of the Appendix.
1. Repealer and new subsection (a) filed 10-18-77; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 77, No. 43).
2. Repealer and new section filed 9-27-85; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 85, No. 40).
Note: Authority cited: Section 142.3, Labor Code. Reference: Section 142.3, Labor Code.
