{"id":"DUT-CA-009","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"California","state":"CA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"California Legislature (codified text published by the Legislative Counsel)","authority":"California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973, Stats. 1973, ch. 993 (Labor Code div. 5, pt. 1); sec. 6400 as amended by Stats. 1999, ch. 615, sec. 4 (eff. Jan. 1, 2000); sec. 6407 as amended by Stats. 1977, ch. 62; sec. 6401.7 (injury prevention program) as amended","instrument":"Statute: Labor Code, Division 5, Part 1, Chapter 3 (sections 6400-6413.5), Responsibilities and Duties of Employers and Employees","title":"Labor Code sections 6400-6413.5: every employer shall furnish a safe and healthful place of employment (6400); shall furnish safeguards and adopt safe practices and do every other thing reasonably necessary to protect the life, safety and health of employees (6401); shall establish, implement and maintain an effective written injury prevention program (6401.7); shall not require or permit employees to be in an unsafe place of employment (6402); shall not fail to adopt safe methods (6403); shall not maintain an unsafe place of employment (6404); shall comply with occupational safety and health standards, rules, regulations and orders (6407); COVID-19 exposure notice (6409.6)","dateIssued":"2000-01-01","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"2000-01-01","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","EMP"],"addressees":["employers (every employer in the State; section 6400(b) allocates citations on multiemployer worksites)"],"clause":"6400(a): Every employer shall furnish employment and a place of employment that is safe and healthful for the employees therein. 6401:... Every employer shall do every other thing reasonably necessary to protect the life, safety, and health of employees. 6402: No employer shall require, or permit any employee to go or be in any employment or place of employment which is not safe and healthful.","enforcement":"Labor Code section 6423 (misdemeanor: knowing or negligent violation of a standard or order deemed serious; up to six months and $5,000), sections 6427-6429 (civil penalties per violation, indexed), section 6325 (prohibition of use of a place of employment on imminent hazard) (DUT-CA-010; CA-065).","functions":[],"notes":"Bound every California employer, on every day of the six quarters, to furnish a safe and healthful place of employment, to adopt the practices, means, methods and processes reasonably adequate to make it so, to do every other thing reasonably necessary to protect employees\u0027 health, to maintain a written injury prevention program, and to comply with every occupational safety and health standard, rule, regulation and order (section 6407), which from Nov. 30, 2020 included 8 C.C.R. section 3205 (CA-023, CA-024).","sourceUrl":"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=LAB\u0026division=5.\u0026title=\u0026part=1.\u0026chapter=3.\u0026article=","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":365111,"grade":"primary","character":"workplace_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-CA","url":"/library/DUT-CA-009","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-CA-009","citation":"California Legislature (codified text published by the Legislative Counsel), Statute: Labor Code, Division 5, Part 1, Chapter 3 (sections 6400-6413.5), Responsibilities and Duties of Employers and Employees (standing) (Ex. DUT-CA-009)","stateName":"California","related":["CA-023","CA-024","DUT-CA-011","CA-065","DUT-CA-010"]}