Board Votes Down Petition Decision on Scaffold Planks-To Advisory Committee

OAKLAND -- In a rare "no" vote on a recommended decision, the Cal/OSH Standards Board kept alive a petition from Masino Plastering, Inc., to require that scaffold planks be secured.Both the board's staff and the Division of Occupational Safety and Health had recommended that the petition be denied.Masino requested that a new section, 1637(f)(5), be added to the Construction Safety Orders. It would state: "Except during