The Cal/OSHA Compliance and Auditing Guide is a unique publication that outlines Cal/OSHA’s complicated General Industry Safety Orders (GISOs), standard by standard, regulation by regulation, and issue by issue. The Guide, which covers all the relevant general industry requirements applicable to businesses and government agencies throughout California, is the most comprehensive reference of its kind.
The innovative structure of including both the Question and Answer format coupled with Audit checklists make
this guide unique. The Guide is used by Facility and Corporate Health and Safety Directors, Audit,
Risk and Insurance Managers.
Benefits
- Enables users to decrease workers’ compensation costs and insurance premiums, and significantly reduce their vulnerability to legal action and fines
- Helps employers alleviate tensions between management and labor over workplace safety and health concerns
- Can be used to support training that reduces health and safety costs and eliminates the need for outside consultants
- Provides information needed to ensure compliance with every aspect of Cal/OSHA requirements
- Can be used even by novice auditors and plant managers/specialists with limited health and safety training to conduct thorough facility self-assessments
- Includes many detailed checklists that have been field-tested by recognized leaders in health and safety auditing and compliance management
- Structured so that users can easily tailor the information to their own facilities’ specific compliance management needs
Topic Areas
- Chemical exposures
- Compressed gases
- Confined spaces
- Cutting
- Emergency exits
- Excavations
- Fire protection
- General environmental controls
- Handheld tools
- Hazard communication
- Hazardous materials
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- Lockout/blockout
- Machinery
- Materials handling
- Medical/first aid
- Occupational health
- Personal protection
- Powered platforms
- Process safety
- Walking/working surfaces
- Welding
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Features
| Q and A Section | Prompts readers to compare their operations and activities with carefully tailored summaries of the Cal/OSHA requirements, which helps to identify high-priority compliance issues and highlight questions requiring further attention
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| Applicability Tables and Checklists | Helps the user determine which regulations apply to specific operations with the corresponding checklists that facilitate compliance tracking and reporting |
| Supplementary Materials | Includes tables with detailed technical information and excerpts from the respective Cal/OSHA standards, as well as copies of required forms |