SAN FRANCISCO – OSHA Region IX has proposed penalties of $102,000 against a Guam-based construction firm for serious and repeated violations of federal safety and health laws. Guam Brilliant Development Company, Ltd., was cited October 16 following an OSHA inspection conducted in April. The inspection is part of a stepped-up enforcement effort to curtail the …
LOS ANGELES – At the November Cal-OSHA Advisory Committee meeting, Chief Counsel Mike Mason described the status of several Prop. 65 lawsuits. Lawyers doing business as As You Sow (AYS) have filed many of the suits. As private litigants, AYS and other firms have been suing manufacturers, some of which are out of state, Mason …
LOS ANGELES – Probably the most interesting portion of the November 13 meeting of the Cal-OSH Standards Board was what transpired behind closed doors, when the members were briefed on active and pending litigation and met the new assistant attorney-general who will pursue the appeal of the ergonomics ruling. COR was not in San Diego …
LOS ANGELES – The Cal-OSH Standards Board will hold its December 18 public meeting, hearing and business meeting in the auditorium of the State Resources Building, 1416 Ninth Street, Sacramento, beginning at 10 a.m. Technical, clarifying revisions of two safety orders are set for public hearing. Construction 1648(a) and new (b), Powder-Actuated Tools, is being …
LOS ANGELES – CERTIFICATION OF RESPIRATORY DEVICES: The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has announced the intended priority order—but no deadlines—for development of planned technical modules for certifying respiratory devices used to protect workers in hazardous environments. The institute plans to propose modules (within 42CFR Part 84) in the following areas: 1. Filters …
LOS ANGELES – It turns out that Dutch workers can protect their pedal extremities by wearing wooden clogs, not just steel-toed safety boots. “We were very tough on them, and they came through,” said wooden-shoe researcher Jan Broeders of the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, which ran the battery of tests. A wooden shoe …
LOS ANGELES – At the November 6 meeting of the Cal-OSHA Advisory Committee, Deputy Chief Mark Carleson briefly went over two of three recent deaths of Los Angeles Metro Rail workers. The first employee fell from a scaffold in North Hollywood. The High Hazard Unit has already cited the contractor, he said. The man who …
LOS ANGELES – The Cal-OSH Standards Board has announced that the following additions, revisions or deletions have been made to California Code of Regulations Title 8 safety orders as follows: LASER WARNING SIGNS AND LABELS—Amendments of Construction 1801 to add new (d) and Tunnel 8416 were heard at the June 19, 1997, public hearing, adopted …