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California Code of Regulationp Title 8, Section 5157. Permit -Required confined Spaces. Page 7 of 14 (9) In addition to complying with the permit space requirements that apply to all employers, each contractor who is retained to perform permit space entry operations shall: (A) Obtain any available information regarding permit space hazards and entry operations from the host employer; (B) Coordinate entry operations with the host employer, when both host employer personnel and contractor personnel will be working in or near permit spaces, as required by subsection (d)(11); and (C) Inform the host employer of the permit space program that the contractor will follow and of any hazards confronted or created in permit spaces, either through a debriefing or during the entry operation. (d) Permit -required confined space program (permit space program). Under the permit required confined space program required by subsection (c)(4), the employer shall: (1) Implement the measures necessary to prevent unauthorized entry; (2) Identify and evaluate the hazards of permit spaces before employees enter them; (3) Develop and implement the means, procedures, and practices necessary for safe permit space entry operations, including, but not limited to, the following: (A) Specifying acceptable entry conditions; (B) Isolating the permit space; (C) Purging, inerting, flushing, or ventilating the permit space as necessary to eliminate or control atmospheric hazards; (D) Providing pedestrian, vehicle, or other barriers as necessary to protect entrants from external hazards; and (E) Verifying that conditions in the permit space are acceptable for entry throughout the duration of an authorized entry. (4) Provide the following equipment (specified in subsections (A) through (I), below) at no cost to employees, maintain that equipment properly, and ensure that employees use that equipment properly: (A) Testing and monitoring equipment needed to comply with subsection (d)(5); (B) Ventilating equipment needed to obtain acceptable entry conditions; (C) Communications equipment necessary for compliance with subsections (h)(3) and (i)(5); (D) Personal protective equipment insofar as feasible engineering and work practice controls do not adequately protect employees; (E) Lighting equipment needed to enable employees to see well enough to work safely and to exit the space quickly in an emergency; (F) Barriers and shields as required by subsection (d)(3)(D); http://www.dir.ca.gov/title8/5157.html 6/4/99