Occupational safety and health: injury and illness prevention programs.

Existing law grants the Division of Occupational Safety and Health power, jurisdiction, and supervision over every employment and place of employment for purposes of adequately enforcing and administering occupational safety laws. Existing law establishes the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board within Department of Industrial Relations and commits to it the duty of promulgating occupational safety and health standards and orders. Existing law requires employers to furnish a place of employment that is safe and requires every employer to establish, implement, and maintain an effective injury prevention program, which includes identifying a person or persons to be responsible for implementing the program. Existing law requires employers to keep appropriate records of steps taken to implement and maintain the program. Existing law authorizes an employer in the construction industry who is required to be licensed under the Contractors' State License Law to use records relating to employee training provided to the employer in connection with an occupational safety and health training program approved pursuant to that law. Existing law requires these employers in the construction industry to keep only records of those steps taken to implement and maintain the program with respect to hazards specific to an employee's job duties. Existing law exempts from these recordkeeping provisions a public entity, other than a state agency, that is a member of, or created by, a joint powers agreement. This bill would delete that exemption, thereby making public entities, other than state agencies, that are members of, or created by, a joint powers agreement, subject to those recordkeeping requirements.