[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 8]
[Revised as of July 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR1926.20]

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                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
CHAPTER XVII--OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT 
                                OF LABOR
 
PART 1926_SAFETY AND HEALTH REGULATIONS FOR CONSTRUCTION--Table of Contents
 
             Subpart C_General Safety and Health Provisions
 
Sec. 1926.20  General safety and health provisions.

    Authority: Sec. 107, Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act 
(40 U.S.C. 333); secs. 4, 6, and 8, Occupational Safety and Health Act 
of 1970 (29 U.S.C. 653, 655, 657); Secretary of Labor's Order No. 12-71 
(36 FR 8754), 8-76 (41 FR 25059), 9-83 (48 FR 35736), or 6-96 (62 FR 
111), as applicable; and 29 CFR part 1911.


    (a) Contractor requirements. (1) Section 107 of the Act requires 
that it shall be a condition of each contract which is entered into 
under legislation subject to Reorganization Plan Number 14 of 1950 (64 
Stat. 1267), as defined in Sec. 1926.12, and is for construction, 
alteration, and/or repair, including painting and decorating, that no 
contractor or subcontractor for any part of the contract work shall 
require any laborer or mechanic employed in the performance of the 
contract to work in surroundings or under working conditions which are 
unsanitary, hazardous, or dangerous to his health or safety.
    (b) Accident prevention responsibilities. (1) It shall be the 
responsibility of the employer to initiate and maintain such programs as 
may be necessary to comply with this part.
    (2) Such programs shall provide for frequent and regular inspections 
of the job sites, materials, and equipment to be made by competent 
persons designated by the employers.
    (3) The use of any machinery, tool, material, or equipment which is 
not in compliance with any applicable requirement of this part is 
prohibited. Such machine, tool, material, or equipment shall either be 
identified as unsafe by tagging or locking the controls to render them 
inoperable or shall be physically removed from its place of operation.
    (4) The employer shall permit only those employees qualified by 
training or experience to operate equipment and machinery.
    (c) The standards contained in this part shall apply with respect to 
employments performed in a workplace in a State, the District of 
Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American 
Samoa, Guam, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, Wake Island, Outer 
Continental Shelf lands defined in the Outer Continental Shelf Lands 
Act, Johnston Island, and the Canal Zone.
    (d) (1) If a particular standard is specifically applicable to a 
condition, practice, means, method, operation, or process, it shall 
prevail over any different general standard which might otherwise be 
applicable to the same condition, practice, means, method, operation, or 
process.
    (2) On the other hand, any standard shall apply according to its 
terms to any employment and place of employment in any industry, even 
though particular standards are also prescribed for the industry to the 
extent that none of such particular standards applies.
    (e) In the event a standard protects on its face a class of persons 
larger than employees, the standard shall be applicable under this part 
only to employees and their employment and places of employment.

[44 FR 8577, Feb. 9, 1979; 44 FR 20940, Apr. 6, 1979, as amended at 58 
FR 35078, June 30, 1993]

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