California Code of Regulations
Title 8 - Industrial Relations
Division 1 - Department of Industrial Relations
Chapter 4 - Division of Industrial Safety
Subchapter 7 - General Industry Safety Orders
Group 16 - Control of Hazardous Substances
Article 108 - Confined Spaces
Section 5156 - Scope, Application and Definitions
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) Scope. This Article prescribes minimum standards for preventing employee exposure to confined space hazards, as defined by Section 5156(b), within such spaces as silos, tanks, vats, vessels, boilers, compartments, ducts, sewers, pipelines, vaults, bins, tubs, and pits.
NOTE: This Article does not apply to underwater operations conducted in diving bells or other underwater devices or to supervised hyperbaric facilities.
(b) Application and Definitions.
NOTE: Electric utility operations within underground vaults. See Section 2700 for a definition of vault and Section 2943(b) for manholes and Section 2943.1 for enclosed spaces.
NOTE: Shipyard operations are regulated by Section 8355.
1. New
article 108 (sections 5156-5159) filed 9-14-78; effective thirtieth day
thereafter (Register 78, No. 37).
2. Amendment of section heading,
subsection (a) and NOTE and repealer and new subsection (b) filed 11-24-93;
operative 12-24-93 (Register 93, No. 48).
3. Change without
regulatory effect amending subsection (b)(2)(D) filed 2-9-94 pursuant to title
1, section 100, California Code of Regulations
(Register 94, No. 6).
4. Repealer of subsection (b)(2)(D),
subsection relettering, and new NOTE filed 1-30-95; operative 1-30-95.
Submitted to OAL for printing only pursuant to Labor Code Section
142.3(a)(3)
(Register 95, No. 5).
5. Editorial correction restoring
inadvertently omitted article 108 heading (Register 2000, No.
31).
6. Amendment filed 2-27-2018; operative 4-1-2018 (Register
2018, No. 9).
Note: Authority cited: Section 142.3, Labor Code. Reference: Section 142.3, Labor Code.
