BURBANK – By a majority vote, the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board has adopted additions, revisions or deletions to the California Code of Regulations, Title 8, Chapter 4, as follows: Construction 1596(g), Combination Pelvic/Upper Torso Restraint Systems. This was heard at the October 16, 1997, public hearing; adopted on January 15, 1998; filed with …
BURBANK – BLOODBORNE PATHOGENS: A Cal-OSHA advisory committee will meet in San Francisco on June 3 to consider amendments to 5193 of Title 8, the bloodborne pathogens standard. Those wishing to attend are asked to call 415-972-8577. Four issues will be discussed. They are (1) effectiveness of the hepatitis B vaccine among health care workers …
BURBANK – Several California contracting firms received honors for safe work at the annual AGC of America convention in New Orleans. Hensel Phelps Construction won the H. B. Alexander Award for being the company with the highest work-hour exposure without a lost workday case. Hensel Phelps was also one of three AGC of California members …
BURBANK – Last year, Elizabeth Griffin, a 22-year-old technician at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center in Georgia, died of a fatal Herpes B virus infection carried by a monkey’s body fluid. The fatal incident occurred October 29, 1997. Griffin had been transferring a monkey from a transfer box into a cage when liquids were …
BURBANK – The Cal-OSHA Consultation Service has been redesigned. There are now four area offices – in Sacramento, San Diego, San Fernando Valley and San Mateo – that will continue to provide the traditional free services at employers’ request. Linked to those offices are four field offices in Anaheim, Fresno, San Bernardino and Santa Fe …
BURBANK – In the years between 1980 and 1994, job-related deaths dropped sharply – from 7,405 in 1980 to 5,406 in 1994. Homicides surpassed machinery accidents to rank second only to traffic accidents as the cause of workplace fatalities. The study by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) was based on analysis …
BURBANK – Double, double, toil and trouble, the Prop. 65 cauldron continues to bubble. Prop. 65, the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, prohibits any person doing business in California from exposing anyone else to a chemical known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive harm without first giving clear and …
BURBANK – On April 20 we devoted a great deal of space to coverage of a California Safety Services Group seminar in Burbank (NEWS p. 00-6901 et. seq.). Attorney Bob Peterson, one of the presenters, wrote COR to ask that we correct some errors in reporting comments he made at the seminar. The relationship between …