Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-17A - Classifications for Washington workers' compensation insurance › Section 296-17A-6601 - Classification 6601

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
6601-00
Detective agencies
Applies to:
Businesses providing investigative and related services for
				others.
Services include, but are not limited to:
* Conducting background checks;
* Investigating corporate embezzlement and fraud, employee
				theft, insurance fraud, missing person cases, matrimonial or child custody
				disputes;
* Monitoring burglar or fire alarm systems;
* Providing polygraph testing or fingerprinting services;
				or
* Tracking and apprehending fugitives.
Work activities include investigative methods, such
				as:
* Checking public records;
* Conducting interviews;
* Surveillance;
* Undercover operations; and
* Providing client with a final report, which includes
				documentation, photographs, or videotapes.
Exclusions:
* Businesses providing customer shoplifting surveillance within
				retail stores reported separately in classification 6601-01;
* Surveillance employees hired as direct employees of a
				nondetective or security agency are reported separately in the classification
				applicable to the establishment.
6601-01
Merchant police or
			 patrol
Applies to:
Businesses providing security services to shopping centers,
				malls, business parks, banks, and other businesses.
Services include, but are not limited to:
* Maintaining public security in malls, hospitals, and
				banks;
* Monitoring parking lots and garages;
* Monitoring alarm systems; and
* Providing surveillance for theft or shoplifting.
Exclusions:
* Detective agencies are to be reported separately in
				classification 6601-00;
* Security guard services which are to be reported separately
				in classification 6601-02.
6601-02
Security guard agencies
Applies to:
Businesses providing general security guard services for
				clients such as airports, commercial, industrial, residential, and governmental
				facilities.
Services include, but are not limited to:
* Conducting electronic sweeps;
* Protecting persons or buildings;
* Protecting and/or transporting executives;
* Providing security at strikes; and
* Responding to fire or burglar alarms.
The clients' security systems may be connected to a central
				security system of the security guard agency, where employees of the security
				guard agency monitor the client's systems and notify the appropriate
				authorities if necessary. As a general rule, security guards, do not have
				police powers.
Exclusions:
* Security guards at logging sites are classified separately in
				6601-03;
* Security guards at construction sites are classified
				separately in 6601-04, provided the conditions in the special exception section
				of the general rules have been met.
6601-03
Security guards at logging
			 sites
Applies to:
* Employees of logging contractors or landowners who are
				employed as security guards to maintain security at logging sites preventing,
				deterring, and detecting crime and/or fires.
* Businesses that contract to provide security guards at
				logging sites preventing, deterring, and detecting crime and/or fires.
Security guard duties are limited only to hours that the
				employer is not conducting any other operations at the site. The employee may
				have no other duties during their shift as a security guard.
6601-04
Security guards at construction
			 sites
Applies to:
* Employees of construction contractors or landowners who are
				employed as security guards to maintain security at construction sites
				preventing, deterring, and detecting crime and/or fires.
* Businesses that contract to provide security guards at
				construction sites preventing, deterring, and detecting crime and/or
				fires.
Security guard duties are limited only to hours that the
				employer is not conducting any other operations at the site. The employee may
				have no other duties during their shift as a security guard.
6601-05
Armored car services
Applies to:
Businesses engaged in armored car services transporting cash or
				valuables for businesses such as, but not limited to, banks, supermarkets, and
				jewelry stores to other destinations; or collect or deposit money into or from
				automatic teller machines.
6601-06
Crowd control services
Applies to:
Businesses engaged in providing crowd control services.
Types of events services may be provided for include, but
				are not limited to:
* Conventions;
* Fairs;
* Live concerts;
* Race tracks;
* Rallies;
* Rodeos; and
* Sporting events.
Workers may include:
* Rule enforcement workers such as uniformed or plain clothes
				security guards who maintain order as well as providing personal protection;
				and
* Parking lot staff.
Exclusion:
Theater ushers, inside ticket takers, set up crews and
				stagehands are classified separately in 4504.
6601-07
Process/legal messenger
			 services
Applies to:
* Businesses engaged in providing process services by
				delivering legal documents such as summonses, complaints, subpoenas, and writs
				to individuals.
* Businesses engaged in legal messenger services for others by
				delivering legal papers between legal representatives and the courts.
Services include, but are not limited to:
* Checking public records;
* Conducting interviews to locate recipients of legal
				documents;
* Surveillance work; and
* Providing clients with a final report of service or
				nonservice on the recipient.
Exclusion:
Errand and parcel delivery services are classified separately
				in 1101.
Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				   51.16.035,
				  51.16.100, and
				  Title
				  51 RCW. 09-20-039, §
				  296-17A-6601, filed 9/30/09, effective 1/1/10. 07-01-014, recodified as §
				  296-17A-6601, filed 12/8/06, effective 12/8/06. Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				   51.16.035. 98-18-042, § 296-17-723,
				  filed 8/28/98, effective 10/1/98; 96-12-039, § 296-17-723, filed 5/31/96,
				  effective 7/1/96; 85-24-032 (Order 85-33), § 296-17-723, filed 11/27/85,
				  effective 1/1/86; 85-06-026 (Order 85-7), § 296-17-723, filed 2/28/85,
				  effective 4/1/85; 83-24-017 (Order 83-36), § 296-17-723, filed 11/30/83,
				  effective 1/1/84; Order 77-27, § 296-17-723, filed 11/30/77, effective
				  1/1/78; Order 73-22, § 296-17-723, filed 11/9/73, effective
				  1/1/74.