Labour market · 13/09/1996

Supplement to California State Plan; Request for Public Comment

This document invites public comment on a supplement to the California occupational safety and health plan. The supplement, submitted on January 30, 1986, with amendments submitted on November 22, 1986 and January 30, 1992, concerns the State's adoption of a hazard communication standard, which incorporates provisions of the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act, also called Proposition 65. California also submitted clarifications concerning the standard and its enforcement on February 16 and February 28, 1996. The State's standard is substantively different in both its content and supplemental method of enforcement from the Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standard found at 29 CFR 1910.1200. Where a State standard adopted pursuant to an OSHA-approved State plan differs significantly from a comparable Federal standard, the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C. 667) (the Act) requires that the State standard must be ``at least as effective'' as the Federal standard. In addition, if the standard is applicable to a product distributed or used in interstate commerce, it must be required by compelling local conditions and not pose any