PALO ALTO – Many course offerings will be presented the week of August 4 at the Occupational Safety & Health Institute presented by the UC-Berkeley Center for Occupational & Environmental Health at the San Francisco Airport Hilton hotel. One set for August 4-5 is titled “Developing Effective Worker Training: What Safety and Health Professionals Need …
PALO ALTO – The Pacific Industrial & Business Association (PIBA) is a non-profit organization serving business and industry in the greater Bay Area from its office in Palo Alto. PIBA has only one full-time employee, Renee Young, and she is retiring. Her title is administrative assistant; her job is varied. Among other things, Renee’s successor …
PALO ALTO – June has been punctuated by three bursts of deadly workplace violence, and the month is not even over yet. Although Type III (co-worker) violence is much rarer than other types of attacks, it understandably is widely televised, talked about and reported. And each dead worker is counted by the Bureau of Labor …
PALO ALTO – Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), hernia, amputation and fracture were the four most disabling conditions afflicting workers in private industry in 1995. That information comes from the just-issued Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report listing characteristics of the two million lost-worktime injuries and illnesses employers reported in 1995. Half of the 32,457 workers …
PALO ALTO – Cal-OSHA has issued an updated list of industries in California, by SIC, with lost workday (LWD) case incidence rates greater than 175% above the private industry average of 3.7 total lost workdays. The High Hazard Employer Program seeks out employers within those SICs. The new list is based on the 1995 Division …
PALO ALTO – Joseph Markey of the California Self-Insurers Association (CSIA) noted in a recent legislative bulletin that, because Democrats control both the Assembly and the state Senate, “most of the bills (of significance to self-insurers) sponsored by organized labor have sailed through the first committee with a party-line vote, or better. Employer-sponsored bills are …
PALO ALTO – Fed-OSHA will conduct a review of the ethylene oxide and lockout/tagout standards on June 30 to determine consistency with Executive Order 12866 for regulatory planning and section 610 of the Regulatory Flexibility Act. The public meeting will be held in Room N3437 of the Frances Perkins Building in Washington, DC. EtO will …
PALO ALTO – As summer begins, a major public-private effort is under way to keep minors safe in summer jobs. According to the National Consumer’s League, these are the five most dangerous jobs for young people: +Delivery and other driving; +Working alone in cash-based businesses; +Traveling with youth crews (selling candy, magazine subscriptions and other …