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 111 - Fumigation
Section 5221 - Fumigation: General
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) Wherever a poisonous gas or a substance giving rise to a poisonous gas is used for fumigation, at least two people shall be present at all times, and each person shall be provided with respiratory equipment approved as protection against the gas being used.
(b) All persons working with fumigants or near fumigation operations shall be instructed in the hazards of the substances employed.
(c) Where poisonous gas or substance giving rise to poisonous gas is used for fumigation, the division may require an employer to provide an approved antidote or first-aid treatment where lack of such facilities might constitute a hazard.
1.
Renumbering of Section
5215 to Section 5221 filed 5-3-78
as procedural and organizational; effective upon filing (Register 78, No.
18).
2. Change without regulatory effect amending subsection (a)
filed 12-19-2002 pursuant to section
100, title 1, California Code of
Regulations (Register 2002, No. 51).
