SACRAMENTO – Yossi Levi, a former owner of Five Star Construction, will join former Five Star foreman Javier Bobadilia in Los Angeles County Jail. In April both men were convicted of felony insurance fraud and ordered to pay restitution and fines. The D.A.’s office has also filed charges against two other former Five Star owners—Aaron …
SACRAMENTO – The Cal-OSH Standards Board will meet on May 15 at 10 a.m. in the auditorium of the California State Building, 107 South Broadway, Los Angeles. After the public meeting—time the board sets aside for comments or proposals from interested persons on any item concerning occupational safety and health— the public hearing on two …
SACRAMENTO – At the April meeting of the Cal-OSHA Advisory Committee in Los Angeles, Consultation Service Manager David Bare reported on distribution of on-site assistance in 1995 and 1996. A total of 4,082 on-site consultative visits were made, at no charge to employers. Here is the breakdown: Manufacturing. . . . . . . . …
BERKELEY – The evening of April 15, three extremely safety-minded speakers described for the Western Council of Construction Consumers their award-winning construction projects. Two of them were refinery clean fuels projects that were honored by the Business Roundtable; the third was an emergency spillway gate repair on the Folsom Dam above Sacramento. EXXON IN BENICIA …
BERKELEY – As of July 1, Virginia law will require that carpal tunnel syndrome injuries (one form of musculoskeletal injury) be treated as occupational diseases and, therefore, be covered by workers’ comp insurance. The National Council on Comensation Insurance, in a 1996 study, found that although overall costs of carpal tunnel claims fell by about …
BERKELEY – The New York Division of Safety and Health is implementing a regulation mandating workplace safety and loss prevention programs. Known as Code Rule 59, since January 8 it has required all employers whose most recent annual payroll is in excess of $800,000 and whose annual most recent experience rating (X-Mod) exceed 1.2 to …
BERKELEY – To help small businesses, Fed-OSHA has produced a series of eleven fact sheets geared toward employers who need specific recommendations for work practices and engineering controls to limit methylene chloride (MC) exposures during routine work activities. Targeted toward industries that include many small businesses where MC exposures are common, the fact sheets were …
BERKELEY – An article in Engineering News-Record reports that a review released March 27 by the Association of State Dam Safety Officials provides the first outside look at BuREC’s safety effort since 1977. BuREC is responsible for 475 dikes and dams, including 382 “high or significant hazard dams.” About half of those dams were built …