SACRAMENTO — California has a long-standing practice of running rulemaking changes through ad hoc (select) advisory committees convened either by Cal-OSHA (as the bloodborne pathogens standards was) or by the Standards Board. Flagger safety and use of backup alarms on haulage equipment were considered on July 15 by a large select committee led by Michael …
INSPECTION CHECKLISTS FOR OVERHEAD CRANES: The Crane Institute of America in Maitland, FL, has produced periodic/annual inspection checklists for three different types of overhead cranes. It says the user-friendly forms list more than 70 inspection items with corresponding OSHA or ANSI references. They are available for (1) Bridge and Gantry, (2) Jib and Hoist, and …
Anaheim has an opening for someone to direct, coordinate and conduct employee safety training and development programs. Extensive experience and management/supervisory experience are required. The candidate must be able to collect, compile and analyze data; prepare and administer a budget; write reports and communicate effectively. A B.S. in industrial safety or related field is highly …
Many cities support their safety and health programs, convinced that safety pays. The City of Los Angeles and its Department of Water and Power seem to have moved in the other direction. Prodded by the forces of privatization, the DWP is dismantling its corporate safety department as well as eliminating the jobs of many other …
SAN FRANCISCO — Charles N. Jeffress, assistant labor secretary for OSHA, was in town last week and took the time for an interview with COR. Jeffress is a friendly North Carolinian who appears very familiar with the complexities of the Fed-OSHA program. He had subjects he wanted to cover, and so did COR. We went …
The San Bernardino County District Attorney’s office is prosecuting Timothy Collister, who is employed by a salvage company’s subcontractor, for involuntary manslaughter in the death of Martin Mendoza, an auto wrecker employee who was blown to bits by a 25-pound “live” shell sold as scrap from Fort Irwin. The trial was set for July 22 …
The Cal-OSH Standards Board, meeting in San Diego on July 16, had before it two proposed petition decisions. Both petitions were submitted by union men. Initially, both were proposed to be denied. However, following consideration of public comments, the SEIU petition recommending revisions to General Industry 5193, bloodborne pathogens, was granted to the extent that …
LeMaster Steel Erectors, Inc., Elkhart, Indiana, has been charged by a federal grand jury with willful violation of fall protection regulations at a construction site in Ohio. Charges of obstruction of justice were also levied against the employer and its construction supervisor. Fed-OSHA’s investigation of a fatal accident on August 6, 1996, led the Department …