Code Compliance: OSHA, ADA, and Stamped Structural Steel

Miller 3 Engineering holds California contractor license #1136711. You can verify any California licence, including the classifications it actually covers, at the Contractors State License Board's Check-A-License tool on cslb.ca.gov.

Yes. We have engineers on staff that design, draft, and stamp these structures and pull permits if necessary. That covers mezzanines, platforms, guardrail on occupied edges, balconies, canopies, and structures attached to existing buildings. It is one of the main reasons clients choose a fabricator with engineers over a shop that only welds.

Above 20 feet. Cal/OSHA 8 CCR §3277(g)(2) requires cages or wells on fixed ladders of more than 20 feet, which is stricter than the federal 24-foot trigger under 29 CFR 1910.28(b)(9). Cal/OSHA enforces the California standard in California workplaces. Separately, replacing a fixed ladder or any section of one obligates that section to a fall arrest or ladder safety system at that time, and a ladder cage does not satisfy that on its own. See the full fixed ladder fall protection page.

We will build it, and we will tell you first if we think it will not pass. That happens most often with decorative rail that misses ADA geometry or guardrail infill with openings that are too large. Finding that at shop drawing review costs a phone call. Finding it at inspection costs a rebuild.

Yes, when we produced the drawings. Responding to plan check, revising, and resubmitting is part of the permit scope rather than something we hand back to you mid-review.

Yes. The most common version is a fixed-ladder inventory counted against the California 20-foot trigger: count, heights, condition, and photos, producing a budget number you can phase across capital cycles. Our preventative maintenance programs include facility condition assessment and reporting with photographic documentation of deficiencies, which produces the same inventory as part of a scheduled program.