SECTIONS 32030-32034 - California Statutes

EDUCATION CODE

SECTION 32030-32034

32030. It shall be the duty of the governing board of every school
district, and of every county superintendent of schools, and of every
person, firm, or organization maintaining any private school, in
this state, to equip schools with eye protective devices as defined
in Section 32032, for the use of all students, teachers, and visitors
when participating in the courses which are included in Section
32031. It shall be the duty of the superintendents, principals,
teachers or instructors charged with the supervision of any class in
which any such course is conducted, to require such eye protective
devices to be worn by students, teachers, or instructors and visitors
under the circumstances prescribed in Section 32031.

32031. The eye protective devices shall be worn in courses
including, but not limited to, vocational or industrial arts shops or
laboratories, and chemistry, physics or combined chemistry-physics
laboratories, at any time at which the individual is engaged in, or
observing, an activity or the use of hazardous substances likely to
cause injury to the eyes.
Hazardous substances likely to cause physical injury to the eyes
include materials which are flammable, toxic, corrosive to living
tissues, irritating, strongly sensitizing, radioactive, or which
generate pressure through heat, decomposition or other means as
defined in the California Hazardous Substances Labeling Act.
Activity or the use of hazardous substances likely to cause injury
to the eyes includes, but is not necessarily limited to, the
following:
1. Working with hot molten metal.
2. Milling, sawing, turning, shaping, cutting, grinding and
stamping of any solid materials.
3. Heat treating, tempering, or kiln firing of any metal or other
materials.
4. Gas or electric arc welding.
5. Repairing or servicing of any vehicles, or other machinery or
equipment.
6. Working with hot liquids or solids or with chemicals which are
flammable, toxic, corrosive to living tissues, irritating, strongly
sensitizing, radioactive, or which generate pressure through heat,
decomposition, or other means.

32032. For purposes of this article the eye protective devices
utilized shall be industrial quality eye protective devices which
meet the standards of the American National Standards Institute for
"Practice for Occupational and Educational Eye and Face Protection"
(Z87.1-1968), and subsequent standards that are adopted by the
American National Standards Institute for "Practice for Occupational
and Educational Eye and Face Protection."

32033. The eye protective devices may be sold to the pupils and
teachers or instructors at a price that shall not exceed the actual
cost of the eye protective devices to the school or governing board.
This section shall become operative January 1, 1992.

32034. The term eye protective devices as used in Sections 32030 to
32033, inclusive, shall not include prescription lenses as defined
in Chapter 5.4 (commencing with Section 2540), Division 2, Business
and Professions Code. Prescription lenses which meet the standards
set forth in Section 32032 may be used by persons doing the work
described in Item 6 of Section 32031 in a classroom under the
supervision of appropriate personnel.