Balancing the needs of an individual with a pressing personal situation with the need to provide equivalent or superior safety in the workplace, the Cal/OSH Standards Board has denied a variance request from the City of Berkeley. It would have allowed a firefighter to use a self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) with a tight-fitting facepiece, while keeping his facial hair.The variance decision was approved at the Dec. 14 meeting of the Standards Board in Sacramento.The
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