SAN FRANCISCO – Safety professionals will find much to think about in an article in the March 1998 Atlantic Monthly titled, “The Lessons of ValuJet 592.” Author William Langewiesche is an editor and a pilot. In the wake of the ValuJet crash, he closely observed the work of the Federal Aviation Administration and the National …
SAN FRANCISCO – An external review draft titled “Health Risk Assessment of 1,3-Butadiene” (EPA/600/P-98-001A) is available for public review and comment. The 60-day comment period will end on April 10, 1998. The draft is available on the NCEA home page (http://www.epa.gov/ncea); for a paper copy, telephone 513-659-7652 to have your name added to the mailing …
SAN FRANCISCO – Successful working models of integrated benefit programs will be described March 18 at the Sacramento Hilton for members of the Disability Management Employer Coalition. To register, call Susan Soltau at 916-852-8588.
SAN FRANCISCO – Teams from 28 engineering schools in the U.S. and Canada met recently at the University of Calgary to race concrete toboggans that they had designed and constructed. Each sled had to seat five riders, weight no more than 300 pounds, have a safe breaking system and a roll bar. Incidentally, the University …
SAN FRANCISCO – “Success in regulatory ergonomics is not like spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire first.” —Cal-OSHA Chief John Howard .ENDSECTION
SAN DIEGO – On March 3, at the OSHA Effective Practices in Ergonomics conference, Region IX Administrator Frank Strasheim was asked if Cal-OSHA had issued any citations under the new ergonomics standard. (The questioner was mindful of the huge penalty Fed-OSHA had imposed on Hudson Foods in July 1997.) “Yes,” Strasheim said. “But you’d have …
SAN DIEGO – On February 27, Fed-OSHA announced it had cited a construction company and a cardboard box manufacturer, both in Saipan, for numerous alleged violations of federal safety and health laws. Future Enterprises Inc. was cited for nine willful, serious and repeat violations at a construction site. Among the charges: using spliced, unprotected flexible …
SAN DIEGO – The subject at the January PASMA (Public Agency Safety Management Association) meeting was the violent episode at the Caltrans maintenance yard near the Anaheim Arena. Last December 18, an ex-employee returned to the work site with an AK-47 and killed four co-workers before dying in a shoot-out with police. (See NEWS p. …