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Rights & Responsibilities

Employee

CCR

EMPLOYEE RIGHTS UNDER THE OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT OF 1970, CAL/OSHA Act of 1973, and Title 8 California Code of Regulations (CCR).

Training

Get training from your employer on safety and health hazards and standards that must be followed.

Information

Request information from your employer on safety and health hazards in your workplace, chemicals used in your workplace, tests your employer has done to measure chemical, noise, and/or radiation levels, precautions you should take and procedures to be followed if you or other employees are involved in an incident or are exposed to hazardous chemicals or other toxic substances.

Request copies of appropriate standards, rules, regulations and requirements that your employer should have available at the workplace.

Review the Log and Summary of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (OSHA 300) at a reasonable time and in a reasonable manner or have an authorized representative do so for you.

Employers must inform you of the existence, location and availability of your medical and exposure records when you first begin employment and at least annually thereafter. Employers also must provide these records to you or your designated representatives within 15 working days of your request.

When an employer plans to stop doing business and there is no successor employer to receive and maintain these records, the employer must notify you of your right of access to records at least 3 months before the employer ceases to do business.

Corrections

Request your employer to correct hazards even if they are not violations of specific standards or regulations.

Complaints

File a complaint with Cal/OSHA if you believe serious workplace hazards or violations of safety and health standards exist in your workplace.

Involvement

Have an authorized employee representative accompany the safety and health compliance officer during the inspection tour.

Find out the results of safety and health inspections.

Attend meetings or hearings to discuss any objections your employer has to safety citations or to changes in abatement deadlines.

File an appeal of the deadlines that are sets for your employer to correct any violation in the citation issued to the employer. Write to Cal/OSHA within 10 working days from the date the employer posts the notice requesting an extension of the abatement deadline if you feel the time is too long.

File a Cal/OSHA discrimination or whistleblower complaint with the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement.

Request a research investigation on possible workplace health hazards from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

File a petition to the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board for a new standard.

Participate in developing new standards by joining a Cal/OSHA Standards Development Committee or by providing testimony to the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board at a hearing when the board is considering adopting a new standard.

More employee safety and health rights can be found at DIR workers’ portal.