PROVIDE SAFE WORKPLACE Clause Samples

PROVIDE SAFE WORKPLACE. The “Victims' Bill of Rights” initiative in part added the following to the California Constitution: All students and staff of public primary, elementary, junior high and senior high schools have the inalienable right to attend campuses which are safe, secure and peaceful. CAL. CONST. ART. I, SEC. 28(c). Every employer is required to furnish employment and a place of employment which are safe and healthful for the employees therein. LABOR CODE § 6400. Every employer is required to furnish and use safety devices and safeguards, and to adopt and use practices, means, methods, operations and processes which are reasonably adequate to render such employment and place of employment safe and healthful. Every employer shall do every other thing reasonably necessary to protect the life, safety, and health of employees. LABOR CODE § 6401. MANUAL2.T23 Revised 2/05 “Safe,” “safety,” and “health”. . . mean such freedom from danger to the life, safety, or health of employees as the nature of the employment reasonably permits. LABOR CODE § 6306(a). “Safety device,” and “safeguard” shall be given a broad interpretation so as to include any practicable method of mitigating or preventing a specific danger. LABOR CODE § 6306(b).