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 37 - Confined Spaces in Construction
Section 1956 - Training

Universal Citation: 8 CA Code of Regs 1956

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024

(a) The employer shall provide training to each employee whose work is regulated by this standard, at no cost to the employee, and ensure that the employee possesses the understanding, knowledge, and skills necessary for the safe performance of the duties assigned under this standard. This training shall result in an understanding of the hazards in the permit space and the methods used to isolate, control or in other ways protect employees from these hazards, and for those employees not authorized to perform entry rescues, in the dangers of attempting such rescues.

(b) Training required by this section shall be provided to each affected employee:

(1) In both a language and vocabulary that the employee can understand;

(2) Before the employee is first assigned duties under this standard;

(3) Before there is a change in assigned duties;

(4) Whenever there is a change in permit space entry operations that presents a hazard about which an employee has not previously been trained; and

(5) Whenever there is any evidence of a deviation from the permit space entry procedures required by Section 1953(a)(3) or there are inadequacies in the employee's knowledge or use of these procedures.

(c) The training shall establish employee proficiency in the duties required by this standard and shall introduce new or revised procedures, as necessary, for compliance with this standard.

(d) The employer shall maintain training records to show that the training required by Section 1956(a) through (c) has been accomplished. The training records shall contain each employee's name, the name of the trainers, and the dates of training. The documentation shall be available for inspection by employees and their authorized representatives, for the period of time the employee is employed by that employer.

1. New section filed 12-30-2015; operative 12-30-2015. Exempt from OAL review pursuant to Labor Code section 142.3(a)(3). Submitted to OAL for filing and printing only (Register 2016, No. 1).

Note: Authority cited: Section 142.3, Labor Code. Reference: Section 142.3, Labor Code.

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