Common use of Notice of Hazardous Materials Clause in Contracts

Notice of Hazardous Materials. The California Health and Safety Code requires businesses to provide warnings prior to exposing individuals to materials listed by the Governor as chemicals “known to the State of California to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity”. The Contractor acknowledges that such chemicals may be present on the Project site. Accordingly, in performing its Work, hereunder, the Contractor and its subcontractors and their employees, agents and consultants may be exposed to chemicals on the Governor’s list. The Contractor shall be solely responsible for notifying its employees, agents and subcontractors that services performed hereunder may result in exposure to chemicals, as required under Proposition 65. Contractor further acknowledges that other hazardous materials, including but not limited to lead paint and asbestos, may be present on the Project sites.