(a) A person may not employ or contract with a professional painter to perform hazardous painting for compensation unless the painter holds a current valid hazardous painting certificate issued by the department. As a condition of employment, an employer may require a professional painter to provide a copy of the certificate. It is a defense […]
(a) An application for issuance of a hazardous painting certificate shall be on a form prescribed by the department. An application for initial issuance of a certificate must include proof that the applicant completed an approved basic hazardous painting certificate program not more than 30 days before the application was received by the department. An […]
The commissioner shall establish the triennial fee for a hazardous painting certificate by regulation. The fee must reflect the department’s approximate costs or projected costs for the hazardous painting certification program.
(a) The department shall (1) establish requirements for basic and supplemental hazardous painting certificate programs; (2) review, and approve or disapprove, programs proposed by contractors, labor organizations, public and private schools, vocational education institutions, and others; (3) assist persons who propose programs to meet requirements for approval. (b) A basic hazardous painting certificate program must […]
The department shall (1) inspect job sites to assure that persons performing hazardous painting are certified as required under AS 18.63.010(a) and are performing the work safely; (2) issue citations to persons who employ or contract with a professional painter in violation of AS 18.63.010(a); and (3) issue citations to professional painters who violate AS […]
The department may adopt regulations necessary for the implementation of this chapter.
The department may impose a civil fine of not more than $200 for a first violation, and not more than $1,000 for a subsequent violation, of this chapter or a regulation adopted under this chapter.
In this chapter, (1) “department” means the Department of Labor and Workforce Development; (2) “hazardous painting” means the application of a substance containing or combined with a toxic or hazardous substance, as defined in AS 18.60.105, in vaporized, liquid, or particulate form to create a coating that will adhere to a surface to protect or […]
