1926.20(a) Contractor requirements.
1926.20(a)(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 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.
1926.20(b) Accident prevention responsibilities.
1926.20(b)(1) It shall be the responsibility of the employer to initiate and maintain such programs as may be
necessary to comply with this part.
1926.20(b)(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.
..1926.20(b)(3)
1926.20(b)(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.
1926.20(b)(4) The employer shall permit only those employees qualified by training or experience to operate
equipment and machinery.
1926.20(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.
1926.20(d)
1926.20(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.
1926.20(d)(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.
..1926.20(e)
1926.20(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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