Occupational safety and health standards: construction jobsites: toilet facilities.

Existing law grants the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, which is within the Department of Industrial Relations, jurisdiction over all employment and places of employment, and the power necessary to enforce and administer all occupational health and safety laws and standards. The Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board, an independent entity within the department, has the exclusive authority to adopt occupational safety and health standards within the state. Existing law, the California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973 (OSHA) , requires employers to comply with certain safety and health standards, as specified, and charges the division with enforcement of the act. Existing law requires the division, before December 1, 2025, to submit to the standards board a rulemaking proposal to consider revising the heat illness standard and wildfire smoke standard. Existing law also requires the standards board to review the proposed changes and consider adopting revised standards on or before December 31, 2025. This bill would require the standards board, before December 1, 2025, to draft a rulemaking proposal to consider revising a regulation on construction jobsite toilet facilities to require at least one single-user toilet facility on all construction jobsites, designated for employees who self-identify as female or nonbinary. The bill would require the standards board to consider adopting revised standards for the standards described above on or before December 31, 2025. Existing law further requires all single-user toilet facilities in a business establishment, place of public accommodation, or state or local government agency to be identified as all-gender toilet facilities by specified signage and designated for use by no more than one occupant at a time or for family or assisted use. This bill would provide that this provision does not apply to construction jobsites, as described above. The bill would include related legislative findings.