The Cal/OSH Standards Board has made modifications to its proposal for a permanent standard allowing qualified tree workers to be hoisted into trees by cranes. An emergency version of the regulation was adopted by the board this summer.The permanent proposal is scheduled to be heard at the Standards Board public hearing Dec. 16 in Sacramento.It would revise General Industry Safety Orders 3427 to allow tree access with cranes under a number of conditions. It states that only when a t
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