A subcontractor claims it does not need a Code of Safe Practices because the general contractor has one. Under Title 8, this is:

Explanation

Section 1509(b) says every employer shall adopt a written Code of Safe Practices WHICH RELATES TO THE EMPLOYER'S OPERATIONS. Two things follow. The duty is per employer, so the general contractor's control of the site does not absorb it. And the content is operation-specific, so adopting or signing a code written around someone else's trades leaves the sub's own hazards unaddressed. There is no employee-count threshold in section 1509 at all; the fewer-than-ten and fewer-than-twenty exceptions live in section 3203 and touch documentation and oral instruction, never the Code.