By WAC Number
Safety Rules
WACs by Chapter Number (all Labor & Industries’ rules start with 296):
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| Chapter WAC # | Section | Rule Title/Topic | Scope of Rule |
|---|---|---|---|
| 296-24 | General Safety and Health Standards | Designed to protect the safety and health of employees by creating a healthy work environment by establishing requirements to control safety hazards in the workplace. | |
| 296-24 | 003 through 012 | General Safety Standards - Purpose and Scope | Consolidation of all safety rules of general application for employers including organization, purpose, and definitions applicable to Chapter 24, General Safety and Health Rules |
| 296-24 | 21501 | Use of Mechanical Equipment and Clearance limits | Allows for safe clearances when using mechanical equipment for material handling |
| 296-24 | 21511 | Rolling railroad cars | Rules for working with rolling railroad cars |
| 296-24 | 21513 | Open area guarding | Requirements to make sure that covers and/or guardrails are provided for open pits, tanks, vats, ditches, etc. |
| 296-24 | 235 | Overhead and gantry cranes | Rules for overhead and gantry cranes |
| 296-24 | 237 | Hoists | Rules for the construction, use and maintenance of chain and electric hoists; Rules for air hoists |
| Chapter WAC # | Section | Rule Title/Topic | Scope of Rule |
| 296-24 | 240 | Crawler locomotive and truck cranes | Rules for crawler locomotive and truck cranes |
| 296-24 | 245 | Derricks | Rules for derricks |
| 296-24 | 293 | A-frames | Rules for A-frames used for material handling. |
| 296-24 | 294 | Rigging | Rules for all types of rigging including slings. |
| 296-24 | 295 through 325 | Compressed gases | General requirements for handling, storage and utilization of compressed gases. Also, contains specific requirements for: Acetylene; Hydrogen; Oxygen; Nitrous oxide |
| 296-24 | 330 | Flammables and combustibles | Requirements for safe handling, storage and use of flammable and combustible liquids. |
| 296-24 | 370 | Spray Finishing | Rules that apply to spray finishing operations that use flammable and combustible material |
| 296-24 | 475 | Liquefied Petroleum Gases (LPG) | To protect employees against the hazards of storing and handling liquefied petroleum gases through design, construction, location, and installation and operation requirements. |
| Chapter WAC # | Section | Rule Title/Topic | Scope of Rule |
| 296-24 | 56525 | Automatic sprinkler systems | Requirements for automatic sprinkler systems |
| 296-24 | 56527 | Fire alarm signaling systems | Requirements for fire alarm signaling systems |
| 296-24 | 567 | Employee emergency plans and fire prevention plans | Requirements for employee emergency plans and fire prevention plans |
| 296-24 | 592 through 635 | Fire suppression & detection | Requirements for fire suppression equipment: Standpipe and hose systems; Automatic sprinkler systems; Fixed extinguishing systems; General; Dry chemical; Gaseous agent; Water spray and foam; Fire detection systems. |
| 296-24 | 680 through 722 | Welding, Cutting and Brazing | To protect employees from the workplace hazards of welding, cutting and brazing and welding gases. |
| 296-24 | 735 through 73511 | Walking Working Surfaces | Safety and health standards for walking-working surfaces. |
| 296-24 | 73511 | Steam Piping | Requirements for safeguarding of steam pipes. |
| 296-24 | 750 | Floor & wall openings & holes, guarding | Requirements for safeguarding walking & working surfaces, floor and wall openings and holes. |
| Chapter WAC # | Section | Rule Title/Topic | Scope of Rule |
| 296-24 | 75011 | Guardrails | Railing, toeboards, and cover specifications. |
| 296-24 | 765 | Stairs, Fixed Stairs | Requirements for design, location, and safeguarding of fixed stairways. |
| 296-24 | 920 through 940 | Compressed gas cylinders | Requirements for determining the safe condition of compressed gas cylinders under an employer’s control. |
| 296-24 | 956 through 985 | Electrical | Requirements for safeguarding employees against electrical hazards in their workplace; Requirements for electric equipment and wiring in locations classified as hazardous. |
| 296-27 | Recordkeeping and Reporting | Requirements for employers to record and report work-related fatalities, injuries and illnesses. | |
| 296-32 | Telecommunications, safety standards for. | Rules for employees working with telecommunication systems | |
| 296-36 | Compressed air work, Safety standards | Rules for protecting workers when working with compressed air. | |
| 296-37 | Commercial diving operations, standards for | Rules for commercial diving operations | |
| Chapter WAC # | Section | Rule Title/Topic | Scope of Rule |
| 296-45 | Electrical workers, safety standards for | Rule to protect workers when using electrical power generation, control, transmission, and distribution lines and equipment. | |
| 296-52 | Explosives, safety standards for the possession and handling of | Covers all aspects of manufacture, possession, storage, selling, purchase, transportation, and use of explosives or blasting agents. | |
| 296-54 | Logging operations, Safety standards | Rules for logging | |
| 296-56 | Longshore, Stevedore and Waterfront Related Operations | Rules for longshore, stevedore and related waterfront operations. | |
| 296-59 | Ski area facilities and operations, Safety standards for | Rules for ski areas | |
| 296-62 | General Occupational Health Standards | The rules in this chapter are designed to protect the health of employees and help to create a healthy workplace by establishing requirements to control health hazards. Requirements for chemical hazard communication programs, workplace lighting levels and exposure records are in chapter 296-800 WAC, the safety and health core rules. | |
| 296-62 | 005 through 050 | Occupational Health - General Information | General information for Chapter 62 |
| 296-62 | 053 | Trade Secrets (Agriculture Only) | Requirements for employer protection of trade secrets. The requirements in WAC 296-62-05305 through 296-62-05325 apply only to agriculture. The requirements for all other industries relating to trade secrets have been moved to chapter 296-816 WAC, Protecting trade secrets. |
| Chapter WAC # | Section | Rule Title/Topic | Scope of Rule |
| 296-62 | 073 through 07316 | Carcinogens (General) | General requirements for protecting employees from contact with known carcinogens (cancer causing agents). |
| 296-62 | 07329 | Vinyl chloride | Requirements for protecting employees from contact with vinyl chloride, a cancer-causing agent. |
| 296-62 | 07336 through 7340 | Acrylonitrile | Requirements for protecting employees from contact with acrylonitrile, a cancer-causing agent. |
| 296-62 | 07342 through 07346 | 1, 2-Dibromo- 3-chloropropane | Requirements for protecting employees from contact with 1,2-Dibromo-3-chloropropane, a cancer-causing agent. |
| 296-62 | 074 through 07451 | Cadmium | Requirements for protecting employees from contact with Cadmium, a cancer-causing agent. |
| 296-62 | 07450 through 07477 | Methylene Chloride | Requirements for protecting employees from contact with Methylene chloride a cancer-causing agent. |
| 296-62 | 07460 | Butadiene | Requirements for protecting employees from contact with Butadiene, a cancer-causing agent. |
| 296-62 | 07519 | Thiram | Specific requirements for protecting employees from occupational chemical exposure to Thiram. |
| Chapter WAC # | Section | Rule Title/Topic | Scope of Rule |
| 296-62 | 07521 | Lead | Specific requirements for protecting employees from occupational chemical exposure to lead. |
| 296-62 | 076 | Methylenedianiline | Specific requirements for protecting employees from occupational chemical exposure to Methylenedianiline. |
| 296-62 | 077 | Asbestos, tremolite, anthophyllite, and actinolite | To protect employees from occupational exposure to Asbestos, Tremolite, Anthophyllite, and Actinolite. |
| 296-62 | 08003 through 08029 | Hexavalent Chromium | Applies to occupational exposures to chromium (VI) in all forms and compounds in general industry; construction; shipyards, marine terminals, and longshoring, with some exceptions |
| 296-62 | 09005 | Non-Ionizing Radiation Hazards | Requirements to protect workers from exposure to hazardous levels of nonionizing radiation. |
| 296-62 | 095 | Outdoor Heat Exposure (Heat Stress) | Requirements for protection of workers from outdoor heat exposure. |
| 296-62 | 14533 through 14543 | Cotton Dust | Protecting employees from occupational exposure to cotton dust. |
| 296-62 | 200 | Coke Ovens | To protect employees from occupational exposure to coke (carbonized coal) oven emissions. |
| Chapter WAC # | Section | Rule Title/Topic | Scope of Rule |
| 296-62 | 500 through 50055 | Hazardous Drugs | Provides minimum requirements for developing a hazardous drugs control program when occupational exposure to hazardous drugs is reasonably anticipated. It is designed to provide effective, assessment-based precautions to minimize or eliminate occupational exposure to hazardous drugs. |
| 296-63 | Right-to-Know fee assessment. | Rules for the department to assess and collect Right-to-Know fees. | |
| 296-65 | Asbestos removal and encapsulation. | Rules for certification of removers & testing. | |
| 296-67 | Process safety management of highly hazardous chemicals, Safety standards for | Rules for employers who have highly hazardous chemicals. | |
| 296-78 | Sawmills and woodworking operations, Safety standards for | Rules for sawmills and woodworking operations | |
| 296-79 | Pulp, paper, and paperboard mills and converters, Safety standards for | Rules for the pulp, paper, and paperboard mills. | |
| 296-99 | Grain handling facilities, Safety standards for | Rules for all grain handling facilities including the waterfront dock areas at marine terminals. | |
| 296-115 | Charter boats, Safety requirements for | Rules for charter boats not covered by the United States Coast Guard | |
| Chapter WAC # | Section | Rule Title/Topic | Scope of Rule |
| 296-155 | Construction, Safety Standards for | Rules for the construction industry | |
| 296-155 | 24601 through 24624 | Fall Restraint and Fall Arrest, Construction | Requirements for employers to provide and enforce the use of fall protection for employees in construction, alteration, repair, maintenance (including painting and decorating), demolition workplaces, and material handling |
| 296-301 | Textile industry, Safety standards for the | Rules for the textile industry | |
| 296-303 | Laundry machinery and operations Safety standards for. | Rules for laundries | |
| 296-304 | Ship repairing, shipbuilding and shipbreaking, Safety standards for | Rules for shipyards, ship building and other similar operations | |
| 296-305 | Fire fighters, Safety standards for | Rules for fire fighters. | |
| 296-307 | Agriculture, Safety standards for | Safety rules for agriculture | |
| 296-360 | Discrimination, pursuant to RCW 49.17.160. | Rules that give direction to the department in enforcing RCW 49.17.160, ; Discrimination against employee filing complaint, instituting proceedings, or testifying prohibited -- Procedure -- Remedy. | |
| Chapter WAC # | Section | Rule Title/Topic | Scope of Rule |
| 296-800 | Core Rules | The basic safety and health rules needed by most employers in Washington State. | |
| 296-800 | 130 | Safety committees/meeting | Rules for your safety committee or safety meetings |
| 296-800 | 140 | Accident Prevention | Requirements for your safety and health plan |
| 296-800 | 150 | First aid | Rules to make sure your employees get fast and effective first aid. |
| 296-800 | 15030 through 15040 | Emergency Washing | Requirements for emergency showers, eye/face washing, hand-held drench hoses, or other similar units used in Agriculture |
| 296-800 | 160 | Personal protective equipment (PPE) | Minimum requirements for personal protective equipment |
| 296-800 | 170 | Hazard Communication (Pre-GHS) | Rules to make sure employees understand and know the hazards of the chemicals they work with. Note: This rule is being phased out and replaced with Chapter 296-901, WAC, "Hazard Communication and the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS)" |
| 296-800 | 190 | Safety Bulletin Board | Rule for having a safety bulletin board. |
| Chapter WAC # | Section | Rule Title/Topic | Scope of Rule |
| 296-800 | 200 | WISHA Poster | Rule for having and posting a Job Safety & Health Poster |
| 296-800 | 210 | Lighting | Minimum requirements for lighting |
| 296-800 | 220 | Housekeeping | Rules for housekeeping, drainage and storage |
| 296-800 | 230 | Sanitation | Rules for drinking water, bathrooms, washing facilities and waste disposal. |
| 296-800 | 240 | Tobacco Smoke | Rules for environmental tobacco smoke. |
| 296-800 | 250 | Stairs | Minimum requirements for stairs and stair railings |
| 296-800 | 260 | Floors | Rules for guarding holes and openings in floors |
| 296-800 | 270 | Structural integrity | Rules for the minimum requirements for workplace structural integrity |
| Chapter WAC # | Section | Rule Title/Topic | Scope of Rule |
| 296-800 | 280 | Electrical, Basic Requirements (Core Rules) | Basic rules for electrical |
| 296-800 | 300 | Fire extinguishers | Minimum requirements for portable fire extinguishers |
| 296-800 | 310 | Exit Routes and Employee Alarm Systems | Minimum requirements for exit routes and alarm systems. |
| 296-800 | 320 | Accident reporting and investigation | Rules about the reporting of a death or a hospitalization of any employee and investigating accidents. |
| 296-800 | 330 | Releasing accident investigation reports | Rules telling what and how the department will release information in their accident investigation reports |
| 296-800 | 340 | Protecting sources | Tells who and how the department protects sources who report occupational safety and health concerns |
| 296-802 | Employee Medical and Exposure Records | The purpose of this chapter is to provide employees and their designated representatives the right to access relevant medical and exposure records. It also describes the procedures WISHA will follow when accessing confidential medical information. | |
| 296-803 | Lockout/Tagout | This chapter applies to the service and maintenance of machines and equipment, including piping systems, if employees could be injured by the: unexpected energization or start up of the machine or equipment or release of stored energy. | |
| Chapter WAC # | Section | Rule Title/Topic | Scope of Rule |
| 296-806 | Machine Safety | This chapter applies if you have machines or machine operations in your workplace. | |
| 296-806 | 420 | Conveyors | Applies to hazards related to conveyors and conveying systems, including bulk material, package, or unit handling types. These requirements are designed to protect employees operating, maintaining, cleaning, and working around conveyors. |
| 296-807 | Portable Power Tools | This chapter applies to the tools and equipment shown in Table 1 of this chapter. | |
| 296-807 | 140 | Compressed Air Tools | This section applies to portable, hand-held compressed air powered tools. It also applies to airhose and plastic pipe used to supply compressed air to these tools. |
| 296-807 | 150 | Powder Actuated Fastening Systems | This section applies to any powder actuated fastening system designed to use the expanding gases from a powder load to propel a stud, pin, fastener, or other object into hard structural material. |
| 296-807 | 160 | Power Lawnmowers | |
| 296-807 | 170 | Jacks | This section applies to portable hand- or power-operated: Hydraulic jacks; Mechanical ratchet jacks; Mechanical screw jacks. |
| 296-809 | Confined Spaces | Protecting employees from occupational hazards related to permit-required confined spaces such as tanks, pits, or storage bins. | |
| Chapter WAC # | Section | Rule Title/Topic | Scope of Rule |
| 296-811 | Fire Brigades | Applies to any workplace that chooses to establish a fire brigade. | |
| 296-816 | Trade Secrets | This chapter applies to both withholding trade secret information from material safety data sheets (MSDSs) and employee exposure records; and providing trade secret information in medical emergencies and nonemergency situations. | |
| 296-817 | Hearing Loss Prevention (Noise) | We are reviewing the hearing conservation rules, updating, and rewriting the rules for clarity, ease of use, and understanding. | |
| 296-818 | Abrasive Blasting | Applies to all abrasive blasting operations where an abrasive is forcibly applied to a surface using any of the following: Pneumatic pressure; Hydraulic pressure; Centrifugal force. | |
| 296-823 | Bloodborne Pathogens | Provides requirements to protect employees from exposure to blood or other potentially infectious materials (OPIM) that may contain bloodborne pathogens. Examples of bloodborne pathogens are the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV). | |
| 296-824 | Emergency Response | To protect employees who work in emergency response operations for the releases or threat of releases of hazardous substances without regard to the location of the hazard. | |
| 296-826 | Anhydrous Ammonia | Applies to employers who use, handle, store, distribute, or transport anhydrous ammonia. | |
| 296-828 | Labs | Applies to the laboratory use of hazardous chemicals. | |
| Chapter WAC # | Section | Rule Title/Topic | Scope of Rule |
| 296-829 | Helicopters Used as Lifting Machines | Chapter 296-829 WAC applies to helicopters when used to carry loads, suspended with a cargo sling, powered hoist, or other attaching methods. | |
| 296-832 | Late Night Retail Worker Crime Prevention | Crime protection requirements for a retail establishment operating between 11pm and 6am. (Does not include restaurants, hotels, taverns, or any lodging facilities) | |
| 296-833 | Temporary Worker Housing | Rules for employers who provide or require their employees to live in temporary housing. | |
| 296-835 | Dip Tanks | The requirements for guarding against the hazards of dip tanks. | |
| 296-839 | Material Safety Data Sheets and Label Preparation | This chapter sets minimum requirements for content and distribution of material safety data sheets (MSDSs) and labels for hazardous chemicals. Note: This rule is being phased out and replaced with Chapter 296-901, WAC, "Hazard Communication and the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS)" |
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| 296-840 | Crystalline Silica | This chapter applies to all occupational exposures to respirable crystalline silica, except for the following: (1) Where employee exposure results from the processing of sorptive clays. (2) Where documented objective data demonstrates that employee exposures to respirable crystalline silica will remain below 25 micrograms per cubic meter of air (25 µg/m3) as an 8-hour TWA under any foreseeable conditions. | |
| 296-841 | Airborne Contaminants | Applies to any workplace with potential or actual employee exposure to respiratory hazards | |
| 296-842 | Respirators | Applies to all use of respirators at work. | |
| Chapter WAC # | Section | Rule Title/Topic | Scope of Rule |
| 296-843 | Hazardous Waste | Rules for hazardous waste sites and operations. | |
| 296-848 | Arsenic | This chapter applies to all occupational exposure to inorganic arsenic. | |
| 296-849 | Benzene | This chapter applies to all occupational exposure to benzene. | |
| 296-850 | Beryllium | This standard applies to occupational exposure to beryllium in all forms, compounds, and mixtures, except: (1) This standard does not apply to articles, as defined in chapter 296-901 WAC, Globally harmonized system for hazard communication, that contain beryllium and that the employer does not process. (2) This standard does not apply to materials containing less than 0.1% beryllium by weight where the employer has objective data demonstrating that employee exposure to beryllium will remain below the action level as an 8-hour TWA under any foreseeable conditions. | |
| 296-855 | Ethylene Oxide | Applies to all occupational exposure to ethylene oxide. | |
| 296-856 | Formaldehyde | Applies to all occupational exposure to formaldehyde. Formaldehyde includes formaldehyde gas, its solutions, and materials that release formaldehyde. | |
| 296-860 | Railroads | Requirements for railroad clearances and walkways in rail yards and plants including logging railroad yards such as mill yards, maintenance yards and sorting yards | |
| 296-863 | Forklifts and Other Powered Industrial Trucks | This chapter applies to powered industrial trucks that use electric motors or internal combustion engines. | |
| Chapter WAC # | Section | Rule Title/Topic | Scope of Rule |
| 296-864 | Split Rims | Applies to the protection of employees who service split rim wheels and single-piece rim wheels used on large vehicles. | |
| 296-865 | Motor Vehicles | Rules for safe care and use of motor vehicles and trailers | |
| 296-869 | Elevating Work Platforms | Applies to the following types of elevating work platforms: Aerial lifts; Manually propelled elevating work platforms; Self-propelled elevating work platforms; Boom-supported elevating work platforms. | |
| 296-870 | Powered Platforms | Covers permanent powered platform installations dedicated to interior or exterior building maintenance of a specific structure or group of structures. | |
| 296-874 | Scaffolds | This chapter applies to suspended and supported scaffolds, including their supporting structures and anchorage points. | |
| 296-876 | Ladders, Portable and Fixed | Applies to portable and fixed ladders, including job-made wooden ladders. | |
| 296-878 | Window Cleaning | Safe window cleaning requirements. | |
| 296-900 | Administrative Rules | This chapter applies to the requirements and information regarding administration of the Washington Industrial Safety and Health Act (WISHA), chapter 49.17 RCW. | |
| Chapter WAC # | Section | Rule Title/Topic | Scope of Rule |
| 296-901 | Hazard Communication, Globally Harmonized System (GHS) | Rules for the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS). |
