On September 30, the last day for Governor Pete Wilson to decide which bills on his desk would become law, he signed Carole Migden’s AB 1209. The emergency measure directs the Cal-OSH Standards Board to adopt a safer needle standard by January 15, 1999. The fate of the bill was murky until almost the last …
The Office of Administrative Law has approved, and filed with the Secretary of State, the massive respiratory protection package. Essentially the same as Fed-OSHA’s, it was heard at the May 21, 1998, public meeting of the Cal-OSH Standards Board and was adopted on June 18, 1998. (See NEWS pp. 00-6934 to -6937.) Title 8 safety …
Fed-OSHA has just issued a new enforcement directive for its field personnel that it believes will also be useful for employers in terms of their complying with the new respiratory protection standard. Private employers in non-state-plan states must be in compliance by October 5, 1998, but all California employers, public and private, have until May …
The Cal-OSH Standards Board’s September 17 meeting and hearing in Los Angeles was brief, COR was told. There were no public comments either of a general nature or about sunset review of existing Title 8 safety orders dealing with electrical, elevator or passenger tramway safety. Once the public meeting (open for public comment) ended, Chairman …
Fed-OSHA and Massachusetts authorities are investigating the fatal collapse in early August of a 12-level section of scaffold-ing at an occupied condominium building in Quincy. Two young masons who had started a facade fix at the top of the building were working their way down when the return section around a line of balconies at …
HAYWARD, CA — The afternoon of September 22, Superior Court Judge Harry Sheppard sentenced Robert McSkimming, the owner of now-defunct K&L Plating in Oakland, to 16 months in state prison. He imposed concurrent sentences for criminal manslaughter and a series of tax and insurance fraud violations. In addition, McSkimming and his wife were ordered to …
The following states and territories have their own OSHA-approved occupational safety and health plans. They are Alaska, Arizona, California, Connecticut and New York (for public employees only), Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, the Virgin Islands, Washington and Wyoming. FINAL …
The California Deck Erectors Advisory Committee (CDEAC) is asking the Cal-OSH Standards Board to change Construction 1504, 1635, 1670 and 1710 regarding fall protection plans. Jack MacLeod, writing for the group, described its members as steel decking subcontractors doing business throughout the state. MacLeod told the board CDEAC believes immediate changes are imperative “since the …