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Major Roofer Safety Effort

SAN FRANCISCO – The National Roofing Contractors Association and Fed-OSHA have signed a one-year pilot partnership agreement that is being tested in three mid-western states. The goal is cooperation among government, labor, insurers and industry to reduce accident rates and lower participating contractors’ workers’ compensation experience modification rates. The program will be administered by NRCA, … Read More »

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New Leaders for California Labor Federation

SAN FRANCISCO – Art Pulaski and Tom Rankin are the new leaders of the California AFL-CIO. They were elected by acclamation. Pulaski, former head of the San Mateo Labor Council, replaces John Henning as executive secretary-treasurer. Tom Rankin, former research director and lobbyist for the labor federation, also chair of the Commission on Health and … Read More »

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Labor’s View of the Ergonomics Standard

SAN FRANCISCO – We recently summarized two sets of comments on the Notice of Proposed Modifications to proposed 5110, the ergonomics standard. (NEWS p. 00-6475.) Both were from management. A reader has asked us for coverage of the pro-worker side of the statements sent to the Cal-OSH Standards Board. “The current proposal has moved the … Read More »

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Board Hears Few Comments on Explosives

SACRAMENTO – At its brief meeting and hearing August 15, the Cal-OSH Standards Board heard only a couple of comments on proposed modifications of Construction 1504 (definitions) and explosives 1550 (blasters’ qualifications) through 1579 and certain appendix plates. “We got three letters and three faxes,” Executive Officer John MacLeod told COR. Fed-OSHA had directed that … Read More »

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Lpg Orders on Agenda for September 19 – Standards Board Meeting

SACRAMENTO – The Cal-OSH Standards Board will meet September 19 at 10 a.m. in the auditorium of the California State Building, 107 South Broadway, in Los Angeles. After the public meeting portion of the agenda, open for comments or proposals on any item concerning occupational safety and health, the board will hear public testimony on … Read More »

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Protecting Nursing Home Workers

SACRAMENTO – The Labor Department has launched a seven-state initiative to protect workers in more than 5,000 nursing home and personal care facilities. Secretary Robert Reich said the outreach effort would focus on common hazards found in nursing homes, one of the nation’s fasting growing industries, with about 1.6 million employees. Of the 10 occupations … Read More »

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Museum Construction Safety

SACRAMENTO – Art buffs as well as safety buffs should be interested in the dinner topic for the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Society of Safety Engineers’ meeting on September 10. It is “Construction Safety at the J. Paul Getty Museum,” chapter president Gloria Teper told COR. The ASSE meets at Taix Restaurant. To … Read More »

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Lead Fee May Not Be Valid

SACRAMENTO – The state supreme court has accepted a petition for review of Sinclair Paint Co. v. Board of Equalization, S054115. The case concerns whether a charge imposed under the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Act, on manufacturers who are not otherwise regulated, is a fee or a tax. If it is judged to be a … Read More »

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