Template: job-site checklist (arrival, safety, protection, daily close)
In one paragraph
A one-page checklist you run on every job, in four blocks: arrival (permit, contract, scope, year built, who is home), safety (lockout kit, gloves, ladder, water and shade, the two Cal/OSHA documents if anyone works for you), protection of the home (paths, dust, the panel taped shut, the pre-1978 lead rule), and the daily close (power restored, openings covered, photos, tomorrow's plan). Each line carries the section that makes it a rule where there is one. Beside the blank, the same checklist filled in for a two-day kitchen circuit job in a 1962 house with a helper on site in July.
The rule
Before work on de-energized equipment the disconnecting means is locked open and tagged with the reason, the person and the date (8 CCR 2320.4(a), 2320.6); energized work happens only under the conditions of 2320.2(a); ladders near energized conductors are non-conductive (3276(e)(18)); water is available at one quart per employee per hour and shade above 80 degrees, with high-heat procedures at 95 (3395(c)-(e)); hazards are inspected for and corrected as a matter of routine (3203(a)(4), (a)(6)); equipment is installed neatly and protected from contamination (2025 CEC 110.12); and paint disturbance in a pre-1978 home beyond 6 square feet per room brings the EPA lead rule (40 CFR 745.83).
Why it matters
The checklist is how a one-truck shop behaves like a company: the same arrival, the same safety habits, the same clean site, every day, whether the owner is watching or the helper is alone. It is also the record that answers Cal/OSHA's first two questions and the customer's only one.