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The following are Cal/OSHA requirements as of the printing of these Mesa Water standard specifications.

The requirements are listed for information purposes only; work must be in compliance with the current Cal/OSHA requirements. Requirements for construction work for Cal/OSHA are listed in Title 8, Division 1, Chapter 4, Subchapter 4, of the California Code of Regulations.

600.8.1 Trench Work

Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) requires a DOSH permit for construction of trenches or excavations 5 feet or more in depth into which a person is required to descend.

Each employee in an excavation shall be protected from cave-ins by an appropriate protective system.

A competent person will make daily inspections of excavations, adjacent areas, and protective systems for potential cave-in, failure of protective systems, hazardous atmospheres, or other hazardous conditions.

A competent person must demonstrate:

1. Knowledge of current safety orders pertaining to excavation and trenching.

2. Knowledge of soil analysis and classification.

3. Knowledge of design and use of protective systems.

4. Authority to take prompt corrective action when conditions change.

5. Ability to recognize and test for hazardous atmospheres.

Protective system design will be based on soil classification: Type A, B, or C soils (refer to Section 1541(b) Title 8). Sloping or benching for excavations greater than 20 feet deep shall be designed by a registered professional engineer.

600-8 MESA WATER DISTRICT

AUGUST 2014

Inspect the area for hazards from moving ground.

Inspect the excavation after every rainstorm, earthquake, or other hazard-increasing occurrence.

Inspect the face, banks, and top daily when workers are exposed to falling or rolling material.

Shore, bench, slope, shield, or use equivalent methods to protect workers in excavations 5 feet deep or more.

Locate spoil, materials, and equipment at least 2 feet from the edge of excavation.

In trenches 4 feet deep or more, provide safe access within 25 feet of any work area.

Install walkways or bridges with standard guardrails when employees or equipment are required or permitted to cross over.

Do not excavate beneath the level of adjacent foundations, retaining walls, or other structures until a qualified person has determined that the work will not be hazardous.

Shore, brace, or underpin structures when their stability is threatened. Inspect structures daily.

Erect barriers around excavations in remote work locations. Cover or barricade all wells, pits, shafts or caissons.

Note: A shoring detail shall be designed by a registered professional engineer for all excavations 5 feet or more in depth into which a person is required to descend.

600.8.2 Confined Space

The General Industry Safety Orders define a confined space as a space that has the following characteristics:

1. Its size and shape allow a person to enter it.

2. It has limited openings for workers to enter and exit.

3. It is not designed for continuous occupancy.

Attention is directed to the provisions of: Article 108 of the General Industry Safety Orders, Title 8, California Code of Regulations; and Article 4 of the Construction Safety Orders, Title 8, California Code of Regulations.

Confined spaces shall be as described above, and shall include the interior of storm drains, sewers, vaults, utility pipelines, manholes, reservoirs, and any other such structure which is similarly surrounded by confining surfaces so as to permit an oxygen deficient atmosphere or the accumulation of dangerous gases or vapors.

The contractor shall notify in writing the Mesa Water Inspector 48 hours prior to performing work in a Mesa Water facility classified as a confined space.

A permit-required confined space has one or more of the following characteristics:

1. Contains or has potential to contain a hazardous atmosphere.

2. Contains a liquid or solid material that can engulf an entrant.

3. Has an internal configuration such that the entrant could be trapped or asphyxiated by inwardly converging walls or by a floor which slopes downward and tapers to a smaller cross-section.

4. Mechanical or electrical hazards.

5. Contains any other recognized serious safety or health hazard.

6. Contains unknown atmospheric environment.

The general industry regulations define a Non-Permit Required Confined Space as a confined space that does not contain or, with respect to atmospheric hazards, have the potential to contain any hazard capable of causing death or physical harm.

Confined spaces shall be considered permit-required confined spaces (PRCS) until proven safe from atmospheric hazards by testing and ventilation; and until evaluated as safe from any other serious safety or health hazards.

No one shall enter a Mesa Water facility that is classified as a permit-required confined space without a Mesa Water Inspector being present. The contractor shall submit the permit to Mesa Water Inspector 48 hours prior to doing work in a Mesa Water confined space facility.

An entry permit is a written or printed document that is provided by the contractor to allow and control entry into a permit-required confined space and that contains, but is not limited to, the following information:

1. Specific permit space identification.

2. Purpose and date of entry.

3. Duration of authorization.

4. Authorized entrants by name.

5. Names of authorized attendant and entry supervisor.

6. Actual hazards of the identified space.

7. Control and isolation methods to be used.

8. Acceptable entry conditions.

9. Results of initial and periodic atmospheric testing.

10. Rescue and emergency services to be summoned.

11. Communication procedures authorized between attendant and entrants.

12. Equipment to be provided.

13. Other information as necessary.

14. Other permits, such as hotwork.

600-10 MESA WATER DISTRICT

AUGUST 2014

Contractor shall comply with Mesa Water’s Confined Space Entry Procedures.

1. Contractor shall submit confined space operating and rescue procedures to Mesa Water for record keeping purposes. Procedures shall conform to the applicable provisions of Article 108, General Industry Safety Orders, Title 8, California Code of Regulations.

2. Contractor shall test for the presence of combustible or dangerous gases and/or oxygen deficiency in confined spaces using an approved device immediately prior to a worker entering the confined space, and at intervals frequent enough to ensure a safe atmosphere during the time a worker is in such a structure. A record of such tests shall be kept at the jobsite.

3. Employees shall not be permitted to enter a confined space, where tests indicate the presence of a hazardous atmosphere, unless the employee is wearing suitable and approved respiratory equipment, or until such time that continuous forced air ventilation has removed the hazardous atmosphere from the confined space.

4. Confined spaces that contain or that have last been used as containers of toxic gases, light oils, hydrogen sulfide, corrosives, or poisonous substances, shall, in every case, be tested by means of approved devices or chemical analysis before being entered without wearing approved respiratory equipment.

5. Sources of ignition shall be prohibited in any confined space until after the atmosphere within the confined space has been tested and found safe.

6. Reservoirs, vessels, or other confined spaces having openings or manholes in the side as well as in the top shall be entered from the side openings or manholes when practicable.

7. Contractor shall coordinate entry operations with Mesa Water when both the contractor personnel and Mesa Water personnel will be working together as authorized entrants into a permit-required confined space.

8. Contractor shall submit to Mesa Water a photocopy of the canceled permit at the conclusion of the entry operation. This information is for record-keeping purposes only, and is not intended to provide enforcement of confined space regulations.

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