FRESNO – Fed-OSHA is faced with fierce complaints about Cal-OSHA from two quarters, as the Cal-OSHA Advisory committee learned at its October 3 meeting here. A coalition of chemical manufacturers, alarmed about Proposition 65’s linkage to the hazard communication standard, has protested to the top dogs in the nation’s capital. OSHA responded with a call …
FRESNO – Fed-OSHA on September 26 proposed $371,400 in penalties against Lisbon Contractors, Inc., of Danboro, PA, for failing to protect its workers at two separate worksites. Lisbon is a water and sewer installer. OSHA has inspected its sites 26 times and issued 25 citations, most of them for serious or repeat violations. There have …
LOS ANGELES – This week’s issue contains some updated and some new resource materials for your COR binder. First, we have printed the latest CAER list, a source of the names and contact information for local California groups in the Community Awareness and Emergency Response network, as well as state and national connections. The umbrella …
LOS ANGELES – One of our more sagacious readers, who does not have the complete Cal-OSHA regulations in Title 8, asked for a definition of serious injury — one that must be reported to Cal-OSHA within eight hours. (See Safety Aids page 60-151, 342(a), included with this issue.) The definition is contained in 330(h): “Serious …
LOS ANGELES – Fed-OSHA says it expects to issue its proposed tuberculosis standard late this year. Cal-OSHA is waiting for action by the Feds. Meanwhile, both OSHA and Cal-OSHA have been conducting inspections. OSHA issued nationwide enforcement guidelines for TB in high risk workplaces as identified by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Cal-OSHA’s interim …
FRESNO – Given the importance of agriculture to the California economy, and the attention it gets from TIPP (Targeted Industries Partnership Program) inspections, it was too bad attendance at the October 3 meeting of the Cal-OSHA Advisory Committee was so sparse. Those who were there received an excellent review of Cal-OSHA compliance activities in agricultural …
FRESNO – Fed-OSHA is seeking public comment on “Cal-OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard Incorporating Prop. 65.” “The State’s standard is substantively different in both its content and supplemental method of enforcement” from the OSHA hazcom standard, the notice says. Any state standard that differs significantly from a comparable federal standard must be “at least as effective …
FRESNO – A new Train-the-Trainer Certificate Program in tractor safety is being developed by the Ag Safety Institute at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. Richard Cavaletto, the director of the institute, is looking for potential trainers, especially Spanish speakers, to be certified as tractor safety trainers. For more information, call him at 805-756-2383 or call …