RCW 49.24.370
Director to make rules and regulations.
The director of labor and industries shall establish such rules and regulations as he or she deems primarily necessary for the safety of the employees employed in tunnels, quarries, caissons, and subways and shall be guided by the most modern published studies and researches made by persons or institutions into the correction of the evils chargeable to improper safeguards and inspection of the tools, machinery, equipment, and places of work obtaining in the industries covered by RCW 49.24.080 through 49.24.380.
[ 2010 c 8 § 12026; 1941 c 194 § 32; Rem. Supp. 1941 § 7666-39.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 49.24 - Health and Safety—Underground Workers.
49.24.020 - Compressed air safety requirements.
49.24.030 - Medical and nursing attendants.
49.24.040 - Examination as to physical fitness.
49.24.080 - Requirements for underground labor.
49.24.100 - Lighting appliances.
49.24.130 - Air chambers—Hanging walks.
49.24.150 - Explosives and detonators.
49.24.160 - Air plant—Feed water.
49.24.170 - Electric power requirements.
49.24.190 - Cars, cages, buckets—Employees riding or walking.
49.24.200 - Speed of vehicles.
49.24.210 - Oil supply restricted.
49.24.220 - Explosives, use of—Blasting.
49.24.230 - Firing switch—Warning by blaster.
49.24.240 - Inspection after blast.
49.24.260 - Requirements as to caissons.
49.24.270 - Shields to be provided.
49.24.280 - Caissons to be braced.
49.24.290 - Cages—Hoisting apparatus.
49.24.300 - Buckets in vertical shafts.
49.24.310 - Telephone system for tunnels.
49.24.320 - Location of lights.
49.24.330 - Generators, transformers, etc., to be grounded.
49.24.340 - Electrical voltage.
49.24.350 - Lamps to be held in reserve.
49.24.360 - Insulators required.