Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 49 Labor Regulations - Chapter 49.17 Washington Industrial Safety And Health Act

49.17.010 Purpose
The legislature finds that personal injuries and illnesses arising out of conditions of employment impose a substantial burden upon employers and employees in terms of ...

49.17.020 Definitions
For the purposes of this chapter: (1) The term "agriculture" means farming and includes, but is not limited to: (a) The cultivation and tillage of ...

49.17.022 Legislative findings and intent--Definition of agriculture
The legislature finds that the state's farms are diverse in their nature and the owners, managers, and their employees continually find new ways to plant, ...

49.17.030 Application of chapter -- Fees and charges
This chapter shall apply with respect to employment performed in any work place within the state. The department of labor and industries shall provide by ...

49.17.040 Rules and regulations -- Authority -- Procedure
The director shall make, adopt, modify, and repeal rules and regulations governing safety and health standards for conditions of employment as authorized by this chapter ...

49.17.041 Agricultural safety standards -- Limitation on adopting or establishing between January 1, 1995, through January 15, 1996 -- Requirements
(1)(a) Except as provided in (b) of this subsection, no rules adopted under this chapter amending or establishing agricultural safety standards shall take effect during ...

49.17.050 Rules and regulations -- Guidelines -- Standards
In the adoption of rules and regulations under the authority of this chapter, the director shall: (1) Provide for the preparation, adoption, amendment, or repeal ...

49.17.055 WISHA advisory committee--Appointment of members--Duties--Terms, compensation, and expenses
The director shall appoint a WISHA advisory committee composed of ten members: Four members representing subject workers, each of whom shall be appointed from a ...

49.17.060 Employer -- General safety standard -- Compliance
Each employer: (1) Shall furnish to each of his employees a place of employment free from recognized hazards that are causing or likely to cause ...

49.17.070 Right of entry -- Inspections and investigations -- Subpoenas -- Contempt
(1) Subject to subsections (2) through (5) of this section, the director, or his or her authorized representative, in carrying out his or her duties ...

49.17.075 Search warrants
The director may apply to a court of competent jurisdiction for a search warrant authorizing access to any factory, plant, establishment, construction site, or other ...

49.17.080 Variance from safety and health standards -- Application -- Contents -- Procedure
(1) Any employer may apply to the director for a temporary order granting a variance from any safety and health standard promulgated by rule or ...

49.17.090 Variance from safety and health standards -- Notice -- Hearing -- Order -- Modification or revocation
Any employer may apply to the director for an order for a variance from any rule or regulation establishing a safety and health standard promulgated ...

49.17.100 Inspection -- Employer and employee representatives
A representative of the employer and an employee representative authorized by the employees of such employer shall be given an opportunity to accompany the director, ...

49.17.110 Compliance by employee -- Violations -- Notice -- Review
Each employee shall comply with the provisions of this chapter and all rules, regulations, and orders issued pursuant to the authority of this chapter which ...

49.17.120 Violations -- Citations
(1) If upon inspection or investigation the director or his or her authorized representative believes that an employer has violated a requirement of RCW 49.17.060, ...

49.17.130 Violations -- Dangerous conditions -- Citations and orders of immediate restraint -- Restraints -- Restraining orders
(1) If upon inspection or investigation, the director, or his authorized representative, believes that an employer has violated a requirement of RCW 49.17.060, or any ...

49.17.140 Appeal to board -- Citation or notification of assessment of penalty -- Final order -- Procedure -- Redetermination -- Hearing
(1) If after an inspection or investigation the director or the director's authorized representative issues a citation under the authority of RCW 49.17.120 or 49.17.130, ...

49.17.150 Appeal to superior court -- Review or enforcement of orders
(1) Any person aggrieved by an order of the board of industrial insurance appeals issued under RCW 49.17.140(3) may obtain a review of such order ...

49.17.160 Discrimination against employee filing complaint, instituting proceedings, or testifying prohibited -- Procedure -- Remedy
(1) No person shall discharge or in any manner discriminate against any employee because such employee has filed any complaint or instituted or caused to ...

49.17.170 Injunctions -- Temporary restraining orders
(1) In addition to and after having invoked the powers of restraint vested in the director as provided in RCW 49.17.130 the superior courts of ...

49.17.180 Violations -- Civil penalties
(1) Except as provided in RCW 43.05.090, any employer who willfully or repeatedly violates the requirements of RCW 49.17.060, of any safety or health standard ...

49.17.190 Violations -- Criminal penalties
(1) Any person who gives advance notice of any inspection to be conducted under the authority of this chapter, without the consent of the director ...

49.17.200 Confidentiality -- Trade secrets
All information reported to or otherwise obtained by the director, or his authorized representative, in connection with any inspection or proceeding under the authority of ...

49.17.210 Research, experiments, and demonstrations for safety purposes -- Confidentiality of information -- Variances
The director is authorized to conduct, either directly or by grant or contract, research, experiments, and demonstrations as may be of aid and assistance in ...

49.17.220 Records -- Reports -- Notice to employee exposed to harmful materials
(1) Each employer shall make, keep, and preserve, and make available to the director such records regarding his activities relating to this chapter as the ...

49.17.230 Compliance with federal act -- Agreements and acceptance of grants authorized
The director is authorized to adopt by rule any provision reasonably necessary to enable this state to qualify a state plan under section 18 of ...

49.17.240 Safety and health standards
(1) The director in the promulgation of rules under the authority of this chapter shall establish safety and health standards for conditions of employment of ...

49.17.250 Voluntary compliance program -- Consultation and advisory services
(1) In carrying out the responsibilities for the development of a voluntary compliance program under the authority of RCW 49.17.050(8) and the rendering of advisory ...

49.17.260 Statistics -- Investigations -- Reports
In furtherance of the objects and purposes of this chapter, the director shall develop and maintain an effective program of collection, compilation, and analysis of ...

49.17.270 Administration of chapter
The department shall be the sole and paramount administrative agency responsible for the administration of the provisions of this chapter, and any other agency of ...

49.17.280 Agricultural workers and handlers of agricultural pesticides -- Coordination of regulation and enforcement with department of agriculture
(1) As used in this section, "federal worker protection standard" or "federal standard" means the worker protection standard for agricultural workers and handlers of agricultural ...

49.17.285 Medical monitoring -- Records on covered pesticides -- Reports
Employers whose employees receive medical monitoring under chapter 296-307 WAC, Part J-1, shall submit records to the department of labor and industries each month indicating ...

49.17.288 Cholinesterase monitoring -- Reports
By January 1, 2005, January 1, 2006, and January 1, 2007, the department of labor and industries shall report the results of its data collection, ...

49.17.300 Temporary worker housing -- Electricity -- Storage, handling, preparation of food -- Rules
By December 1, 1998, the department of labor and industries shall adopt rules requiring electricity in all temporary worker housing and establishing minimum requirements to ...

49.17.310 Temporary worker housing -- Licensing, operation, and inspection -- Rules -- Definition
The department and the department of health shall adopt joint rules for the licensing, operation, and inspection of temporary worker housing, and the enforcement thereof. ...

49.17.320 Temporary worker housing operation standards -- Departments' agreement -- Enforcement -- Definition
By December 1, 1999, the department and the department of health shall jointly establish a formal agreement that identifies the roles of each of the ...

49.17.350 Flaggers
(1) The director of the department of labor and industries shall adopt permanent rules that take effect no later than March 1, 2001, revising any ...

49.17.360 Ergonomics Initiative--Intent
Washington must aid businesses in creating new jobs. Governor Locke's competitiveness council has identified repealing the state ergonomics regulations as a top priority for improving ...

49.17.370 Ergonomics Initiative--Definition--Rule repeal
For the purposes of this section, "state ergonomics regulations" are defined as the rules addressing musculoskeletal disorders, adopted on May 26, 2000, by the director ...

49.17.400 Construction crane safety -- Definitions
The definitions in this section apply throughout RCW 49.17.400 through 49.17.430 unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Apprentice operator or trainee" means a crane ...

49.17.410 Construction crane safety -- Application
(1) RCW 49.17.400 through 49.17.430 apply to cranes used with or without attachments. (2) RCW 49.17.400 through 49.17.430 do not apply to: (a) A crane ...

49.17.420 Construction crane certification program -- Rules -- Certificate of operation
(1) The department shall establish, by rule, a crane certification program for cranes used in construction. In establishing rules, the department shall consult nationally recognized ...

49.17.430 Qualified construction crane operators -- Rules -- Apprentice operators or trainees -- Reciprocity
(1) Except for training purposes as provided in subsection (3) of this section, an employer or contractor shall not permit a crane operator to operate ...

49.17.440 Construction crane safety -- Rules -- Implementation
The department of labor and industries shall adopt rules necessary to implement RCW 49.17.400 through 49.17.430.[2007 c 27 § 6.]Notes: Intent -- Effective date -- ...

49.17.900 Short title
This act shall be known and cited as the Washington Industrial Safety and Health Act of 1973.[1973 c 80 § 29.] ...

49.17.910 Severability -- 1973 c 80
If any provision of this act, or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act, or the application ...