{"id":1020,"date":"2022-03-22T12:56:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T12:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdsourcelawyers.com\/statutes-california-laws\/?page_id=1020"},"modified":"2022-05-20T23:48:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T23:48:03","slug":"ab-2774","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/crowdsourcelawyers.com\/california-statutes\/california-statutes\/ab-2774\/","title":{"rendered":"AB 2774"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-e878f05c31dff72941bf1e49a00d9ff5 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Currrent as of February 4, 2022<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-l1254x1y-b68d15443972854b0a8b7a1a4b8d589a\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-l1254x1y-b68d15443972854b0a8b7a1a4b8d589a .avia_textblock{\nfont-size:19px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-l1254x1y-b68d15443972854b0a8b7a1a4b8d589a '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h1 id=\"bill_num_title_chap\"><b>Assembly Bill No. 2774<\/b><\/h1>\n<h2 id=\"chap_num_title_chap\">CHAPTER 692<\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">An act to repeal and add Section 6432 of the Labor Code, relating to employment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">[\u00a0Approved by\u00a0Governor\u00a0\u00a0September\u00a030,\u00a02010.\u00a0Filed with\u00a0Secretary of State\u00a0\u00a0September\u00a030,\u00a02010.\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL&#8217;S DIGEST<\/p>\n<p>AB 2774, Swanson. Occupational safety and health.<\/p>\n<p>Existing law requires an employer to provide employees with a safe workplace and authorizes the Division of Occupational Safety and Health within the Department of Industrial Relations to enforce health and safety standards in places of employment and to investigate and to issue a citation and impose civil penalties when an employer commits a serious violation that causes an employee to suffer or potentially suffer, among other things, \u201cserious injury or illness\u201d or \u201cserious physical harm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This bill would establish a rebuttable presumption as to when an employer commits a serious violation of these provisions and would define serious physical harm, as specified. The bill would also establish new procedures and standards for an investigation and the determination by the division of a serious violation by an employer which causes harm or exposes an employee to the risk of harm.<\/p>\n<p>Vote:\u00a0majority\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Appropriation:\u00a0no\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Fiscal Committee:\u00a0yes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Local Program:\u00a0no<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:<\/p>\n<p><strong>SECTION 1.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Section 6432 of the Labor Code is repealed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEC. 2.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Section 6432 is added to the Labor Code, to read:<\/p>\n<p><strong>6432.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(a)\u00a0There shall be a rebuttable presumption that a \u201cserious violation\u201d exists in a place of employment if the division demonstrates that there is a realistic possibility that death or serious physical harm could result from the actual hazard created by the violation. The demonstration of a violation by the division is not sufficient by itself to establish that the violation is serious. The actual hazard may consist of, among other things:<\/p>\n<p>(1)\u00a0A serious exposure exceeding an established permissible exposure limit.<\/p>\n<p>(2)\u00a0The existence in the place of employment of one or more unsafe or unhealthful practices, means, methods, operations, or processes that have been adopted or are in use.<\/p>\n<p>(b)\u00a0(1)\u00a0Before issuing a citation alleging that a violation is serious, the division shall make a reasonable attempt to determine and consider, among other things, all of the following:<\/p>\n<p>(A)\u00a0Training for employees and supervisors relevant to preventing employee exposure to the hazard or to similar hazards.<\/p>\n<p>(B)\u00a0Procedures for discovering, controlling access to, and correcting the hazard or similar hazards.<\/p>\n<p>(C)\u00a0Supervision of employees exposed or potentially exposed to the hazard.<\/p>\n<p>(D)\u00a0Procedures for communicating to employees about the employer\u2019s health and safety rules and programs.<\/p>\n<p>(E)\u00a0Information that the employer wishes to provide, at any time before citations are issued, including, any of the following:<\/p>\n<p>(i)\u00a0The employer\u2019s explanation of the circumstances surrounding the alleged violative events.<\/p>\n<p>(ii)\u00a0Why the employer believes a serious violation does not exist.<\/p>\n<p>(iii)\u00a0Why the employer believes its actions related to the alleged violative events were reasonable and responsible so as to rebut, pursuant to subdivision (c), any presumption established pursuant to subdivision (a).<\/p>\n<p>(iv)\u00a0Any other information that the employer wishes to provide.<\/p>\n<p>(2)\u00a0The division shall satisfy its requirement to determine and consider the facts specified in paragraph (1) if, not less than 15 days prior to issuing a citation for a serious violation, the division delivers to the employer a standardized form containing the alleged violation descriptions (\u201cAVD\u201d) it intends to cite as serious and clearly soliciting the information specified in this subdivision. The director shall prescribe the form for the alleged violation descriptions and solicitation of information. Any forms issued pursuant to this section shall be exempt from the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code).<\/p>\n<p>(c)\u00a0If the division establishes a presumption pursuant to subdivision (a) that a violation is serious, the employer may rebut the presumption and establish that a violation is not serious by demonstrating that the employer did not know and could not, with the exercise of reasonable diligence, have known of the presence of the violation. The employer may accomplish this by demonstrating both of the following:<\/p>\n<p>(1)\u00a0The employer took all the steps a reasonable and responsible employer in like circumstances should be expected to take, before the violation occurred, to anticipate and prevent the violation, taking into consideration the severity of the harm that could be expected to occur and the likelihood of that harm occurring in connection with the work activity during which the violation occurred. Factors relevant to this determination include, but are not limited to, those listed in subdivision (b).<\/p>\n<p>(2)\u00a0The employer took effective action to eliminate employee exposure to the hazard created by the violation as soon as the violation was discovered.<\/p>\n<p>(d)\u00a0If the employer does not provide information in response to a division inquiry made pursuant to subdivision (b), the employer shall not be barred from presenting that information at the hearing and no negative inference shall be drawn. The employer may offer different information at the hearing than what was provided to the division and may explain any inconsistency, but the trier of fact may draw a negative inference from the prior inconsistent factual information. The trier of fact may also draw a negative inference from factual information offered at the hearing by the division that is inconsistent with factual information provided to the employer pursuant to subdivision (b), or from a failure by the division to provide the form setting forth the descriptions of the alleged violation and soliciting information pursuant to subdivision (b).<\/p>\n<p>(e)\u00a0\u201cSerious physical harm,\u201d as used in this part, means any injury or illness, specific or cumulative, occurring in the place of employment or in connection with any employment, that results in any of the following:<\/p>\n<p>(1)\u00a0Inpatient hospitalization for purposes other than medical observation.<\/p>\n<p>(2)\u00a0The loss of any member of the body.<\/p>\n<p>(3)\u00a0Any serious degree of permanent disfigurement.<\/p>\n<p>(4)\u00a0Impairment sufficient to cause a part of the body or the function of an organ to become permanently and significantly reduced in efficiency on or off the job, including, but not limited to, depending on the severity, second-degree or worse burns, crushing injuries including internal injuries even though skin surface may be intact, respiratory illnesses, or broken bones.<\/p>\n<p>(f)\u00a0Serious physical harm may be caused by a single, repetitive practice, means, method, operation, or process.<\/p>\n<p>(g)\u00a0A division safety engineer or industrial hygienist who can demonstrate, at the time of the hearing, that his or her division-mandated training is current shall be deemed competent to offer testimony to establish each element of a serious violation, and may offer evidence on the custom and practice of injury and illness prevention in the workplace that is relevant to the issue of whether the violation is a serious violation.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>AB 2774<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":2019,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1020","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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