California Code of Regulations › Title 8 - Industrial Relations › Division 1 - Department of Industrial Relations › Chapter 3.2 - California Occupational Safety and Health Regulations (Cal/OSHA) › Subchapter 2 - Regulations of the Division of Occupational Safety and Health › Article 2.5 - Registration-Asbestos-Related Work › Section 341.6 - Registration Requirements

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a)
					 An employer who will be engaging in asbestos-related work, as defined, in
					 subsection (b), involving 100 square feet or more of surface area of
					 asbestos-containing material, computed in accordance with subsection (e) of
					 this section, shall apply for and obtain a registration from the division prior
					 to the commencement of any such work.
The registration shall be valid for one year after
						issuance by the division.
(b) "Asbestos-related work" means any
					 activity which by disturbing asbestos-containing construction materials may
					 release asbestos fibers into the air and which is not related to its
					 manufacture, the mining or excavation of asbestos-bearing ore or materials, or
					 the installation or repair of automotive materials containing
					 asbestos.
(c) "Asbestos containing
					 construction materials" means any manufactured construction material which
					 contains more than 1/10th of 1% asbestos by weight.
(d) "Asbestos" means fibrous forms of various
					 hydrated minerals including chrysotile (fibrous serpentine), crocidolite
					 (fibrous riebeckite), amosite (fibrous cummingtonite-grunerite), fibrous
					 tremolite, fibrous actinolite, and fibrous anthophyllite.
(e) The square footage of asbestos containing
					 construction material, as defined in subsection (c) of this section, shall be
					 determined by computing the surface area of any such material which will be
					 handled during the course of the work being performed by the employer at a
					 single worksite. If the asbestos containing construction material is situated
					 in noncontiguous locations at a single worksite, the total square footage of
					 such asbestos containing construction material shall be included in the
					 computation, unless the work is performed as part of a routine and continuing
					 maintenance and repair plan of existing fixtures or machinery where each
					 component of such work involves less than 100 square feet.
"A single worksite," as used in this subsection, shall
						include all buildings, structures, premises, fixtures, machinery or other areas
						containing asbestos containing construction material which will be handled
						during the course of the work for which the employer has contracted whether
						pursuant to single or multiple contracts with the same hirer.
This article is not intended to apply to asbestos-related
						work involving less than 100 square feet of asbestos containing construction
						material performed at separate unrelated worksites by the same employer even
						though the aggregate total of all such work equals or exceeds one hundred
						square feet annually.
NOTE: The requirements of this section apply only to
						asbestos-related work involving 100 square feet or more of surface area of
						asbestos-containing construction material. Compliance with this section shall
						constitute compliance with the reporting requirements of section
						5208 of title 8 of the California
						Code of Regulations. For asbestos-related work involving less than 100 square
						feet of surface area of asbestos-containing construction material, and for
						other work involving the use or handling of asbestos, employers shall comply
						with the reporting requirements of section
						5208 of title 8 of the California
						Code of Regulations.
1. New
						section filed 5-22-87; operative upon filing (Register 87, No.
						22).
2. Amendment filed 8-1-88 as an emergency; operative 8-1-88
						(Register 88, No. 32). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL
						within 120 days or emergency language will be repealed on
						11-29-88.
3. Certificate of Compliance transmitted to OAL 11-29-88
						and filed 12-29-88 (Register 89, No. 2).
4. Change without
						regulatory effect amending section (a) filed 9-14-90 pursuant to section
						100, title 1, California Code of
						Regulations (Register 90, No. 43).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
						  60.5,
						  6308 and
						  6501.5, Labor
						  Code. Reference: Sections
						  6501.5,
						  6501.7 and
						  6501.8, Labor
						  Code.