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39 Cal/OSHA documents, each generated from your own answers and citing the standard it is written from. You are not offered a chapter your work does not bind — and you are not charged for one either.

Every California employer owes these

No trigger, no headcount threshold, no exceptions.

Document Standard Included in
Injury and Illness Prevention Program
The one every California employer owes, with no exceptions and no headcount threshold. Eight required elements, and an inspector judges whether the program is live rather than whether it exists.
 8 CCR §3203 Starter
Required Postings and Notifications
What has to be on the wall and how long records are kept. Cheap to get right and among the most commonly cited items in California.
 8 CCR §340, §14300.32, §14300.41, §3204(g), §1509(c) Starter

Required in writing once something is true of your work

Each of these is a written-plan mandate, but only because of something specific — a chemical, a machine, a temperature, a headcount. Nothing here is included by default.

Document Standard Included in
Hazard Communication Program
Required the moment there is a hazardous chemical on site — which includes the cleaning cupboard, the adhesive and the diesel can.
 8 CCR §5194 Starter
Heat Illness Prevention Plan
Outdoor work is §3395; indoor workplaces over 82°F are §3396, which is newer and catches kitchens, warehouses and shops that never thought of themselves as heat workplaces.
 8 CCR §3395 / §3396 Starter
Workplace Violence Prevention Plan
SB 553. Reaches nearly every California employer, not a trade — if you have employees and a workplace, this is almost certainly yours.
 Labor Code §6401.9 Starter
Emergency Action Plan
Evacuation, alarm, headcount and who stays behind to shut things down. Required in writing above a headcount threshold.
 8 CCR §3220 Starter
Fire Prevention Plan
Ignition sources, fuel housekeeping and who maintains the equipment that could start a fire.
 8 CCR §3221 Starter
Task Hazard Analysis
The inspection duty inside the IIPP, made into a document you can actually hand a foreman for a specific task.
 8 CCR §3203(a)(4); §1509 Starter
Personal Protective Equipment — Hazard Assessment and Training
The assessment and the written certification, not just a glove policy. The duty to assess is unconditional, and the missing certification is a standard finding.
 8 CCR §3380(f) Starter
Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout)
For anyone who cleans, services or unjams machinery. Written machine-specific procedures, not a general policy.
 8 CCR §3314 Starter
Hearing Conservation Program
General industry: triggered by an eight-hour average at or above 85 dBA — grinders, saws and compressors get there more often than people expect. Construction is exempt from §§5097–5100 under §5095 and gets a §5096 noise-control chapter instead, with no audiometric testing.
 8 CCR §5097–§5100 / §5096 Starter
Bloodborne Pathogens Exposure Control Plan
For anyone with reasonably anticipated exposure to blood or other potentially infectious material, including designated first responders.
 8 CCR §5193 Starter
Permit-Required Confined Space Program
Tanks, vaults, pits and crawl spaces. The permit program is required in writing before anyone enters.
 8 CCR §5157 Starter
Electrical Safety Work Procedures
For work on or near energised parts. Separate from the general electrical safety rules and often missing entirely.
 8 CCR §2320.1–§2320.11 Starter
Repetitive Motion Injury Program
California's own standard, with a specific trigger: two RMIs in twelve months, same job, diagnosed by a physician.
 8 CCR §5110 Starter
Powered Industrial Truck Program
Forklifts, pallet jacks and order pickers — operator evaluation every three years, and it has to be documented.
 8 CCR §3668, §3650 Starter
Wildfire Smoke Protection Plan
Triggered at a PM2.5 AQI of 151. Reaches essentially every California employer with outdoor workers, and is routinely confused with §5141, which is a different standard.
 8 CCR §5141.1 Starter
Lead Exposure Compliance Program
General industry. California amended its lead standards on 1 January 2025 and they are now far below federal — a 10 µg/m³ PEL against a federal 50, and a 2 µg/m³ action level against 30. A program written to the federal standard is not slightly wrong.
 8 CCR §5198 Starter
Respirable Crystalline Silica Exposure Control Plan General industry
General industry — stone and artificial-stone fabrication shops above all. Built from the silica tasks you list for your own facility, with the SB 20 attestation forms where they apply. Not written for abrasive blasting, quarries, mines, concrete or cement plants, tile manufacturing or monument work.
 8 CCR §5204 Pro
Respirable Crystalline Silica Exposure Control Plan (Construction) Construction
A different standard from §5204, with Table 1's specified controls and its own duties. Most vendors sell one silica product for both, which cannot be right for either.
 8 CCR §1532.3 Pro
Respiratory Protection Program
A written program for required use, with employer-completion items. Voluntary users receive Appendix D and applicable elements; voluntary-only filtering facepieces retain their exception. The respiratory chapter excludes IDLH entry, oxygen-deficient atmospheres, rescue/escape-only and interior structural firefighting procedures. Supplied-air/SCBA breathing-air procedures are not provided.
 8 CCR §5144 Pro
Code of Safe Practices Construction
Required in writing of every California construction employer, and among the most commonly cited items in the state.
 8 CCR §1509(b) Starter
Subcontractors and Multi-Employer Worksites Construction
Who is the controlling employer, who corrects what, and how it is recorded when more than one company is on site.
 8 CCR §1509, §3203; Labor Code §6400 Starter
Injury and Illness Prevention Program — Restaurant and Food Service General industry
The base IIPP written in the language of a kitchen — slips, burns, knives, indoor heat — as the document a restaurant actually reads first. Binds alongside the standard IIPP, not instead of it.
 8 CCR §3203 Starter

Supporting material

No standard requires these in writing. They record how a standard is met, and a program with no filled-in records is not an implemented program.

Document Standard Included in
Code of Safe Practices (General Industry)
No standard requires this one in writing for general industry, but the communication and training elements of §3203 are what it evidences, keyed to your business category.
 8 CCR §3203(a)(3), (a)(7) Starter
Fall Protection
Where the duty starts, what it attaches to, and the difference between the construction and general-industry triggers.
 8 CCR §1670 / §3210–§3212 Starter
Machine Guarding
Point of operation, power transmission and the guarding a shop is expected to have in place.
 8 CCR §4002, §4184 Starter
Portable Ladder Safety
Portable ladders only. Fixed ladders, scaffolds and aerial devices are governed elsewhere, and the chapter says so rather than implying coverage it does not have.
 8 CCR §3276 Starter
Welding, Cutting and Hot Work
The permit, the fire watch and the housekeeping around it.
 8 CCR §4848 Starter
Flammable and Combustible Liquids
Covered containers, how much may sit outside a storage cabinet, and solvent rags in a covered metal can emptied daily — with the Construction Safety Orders' own rules for job sites, and a plain statement of which parts of the scope are settled and which are not. Names the Hazardous Materials Business Plan threshold and says this manual does not file it.
 8 CCR §5551, §5545, §5417; §1930–§1935, §1513 Starter
Scaffolds
Built-up scaffolds on construction work, and rolling towers, mobile work platforms and ladder stands in general industry (Article 23). The qualified person, load classes, the daily plank inspection, and the guardrail height for each covered scaffold type — 30 inches for a general-industry tower, not 7½ feet. Suspended scaffolds: the railing rule only.
 8 CCR §1637, §1646, §3622 Starter
Elevating Work Platforms and Aerial Devices
Scissor lifts and boom lifts, which are close to opposite on fall protection — including the §3648(d) rule against tying off to the structure you are working next to.
 8 CCR §3646, §3648 Starter
Cranes, Hoisting and Rigging
Inspection intervals, the qualified operator and the rigging records that go with them.
 8 CCR §5021, §5042 Starter
Medical Services and First Aid
What has to be available, how quickly, and who is trained to use it. For general industry §3400 asks for no written document. Construction is different: §1512(i) requires a written emergency medical services plan, and you are given one.
 8 CCR §3400 / §1512 Starter
Labor/Management Safety and Health Committee
One of the two ways §3203 lets you meet the communication requirement. Optional — but if you run a committee, this is the document that shows it.
 8 CCR §3203(c) Starter
Working from Home — Home Workspace Addendum
The employer's duty does not stop at the office door. A short addendum rather than a second program.
 8 CCR §3203; Labor Code §6400 Starter
Excavation and Trenching Safety Construction
Protective systems, the competent person, and the permit that has to be in hand before the trench is dug.
 8 CCR §1541, §1541.1, §341 Starter
Falsework and Vertical Shoring Construction
The threshold that decides whether a California-registered civil engineer must sign your drawings, plus the plan-approval sheet and the pre-pour inspection certification. Not the layout itself — that is engineering about one structure, and we say so.
 8 CCR §1717 Starter
Lead — Construction Work (Determination) Construction
A determination naming the duty, not a compliance program: §5198(a)(2) excludes construction, so construction lead work is under §1532.1. The full construction program is not built yet, and this says so plainly rather than handing you the wrong standard.
 8 CCR §1532.1 Starter

What this list does not do

A longer catalogue is not a better program. Every document here binds only where your answers say it applies, and the ones that do not apply are left out rather than padded in — a manual full of chapters for work you do not do is harder to defend, not easier. Generated programs are a starting point and should be reviewed before adoption.

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