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Seven Agreements to Use Adr – for Workers’ Comp Claims

SACRAMENTO – Labor Code 3201.5 took effect in September 1993. It permits certain employers and construction unions to use collective bargaining agreements to resolve workers’ compensation claims by means of alternative dispute resolution (ADR), provided certain conditions are met. To date, 11,000 workers will be covered. As of August 28, 1995, the Division of Workers’ … Read More »

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Public Hearings Set for Workers’ Comp Regulations

SACRAMENTO – The Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has prepared amendments to four subsections of its regulations in Title 8, California Code of Regulations. Two public hearings have been announced. Each will begin at 10 a.m. The first will be held October 2 in Room 1138, 107 So. Broadway, Los Angeles; the second will be … Read More »

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OSHA Compliance Efforts Called Ineffective

SACRAMENTO – Computer analysis of OSHA data by Associated Press showed that three-quarters of U.S. worksites that suffered fatal or catastrophic accidents in 1994 and early 1995 had never been inspected by the Feds in this decade. Those accidents claimed the lives of 1,835 workers and injured many more. OSHA Chief Joseph Dear did not … Read More »

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Consultants, Not Advocates

SACRAMENTO – The Worksafe Group, a consulting company that offers a national clientele a pro-active employee safety management program, asked that we make it clear that the WORKSAFE coalition is an entirely separate entity. Members of the labor-led coalition are fierce advocates for stronger occupational safety and health efforts in California. The Worksafe Group, Inc., … Read More »

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Useful Stuff for Employers and Employees

SACRAMENTO – +BOB REEVES, the safety specialist with the California Chamber of Commerce, got a question recently that COR often hears concerning which posters an employer must display in the workplace. There are a great many: Industrial Welfare Commission wage and hour orders, the pay day notice, the Equal Employment Opportunity notice, the Cal-OSHA poster, … Read More »

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Safely Surfing the Internet

SACRAMENTO – On Monday, September 25, the Sacramento chapter of ASSE, the American Society of Safety Engineers, will learn of the advantages of being on line with the Internet. Specific tools to be covered are e-mail, newsgroups, gopher and the World Wide Web. This will be a luncheon meeting starting at 11:30 a.m. at the … Read More »

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Regulatory Access on the Internet

SACRAMENTO – The environmental health and safety department at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, has announced its Internet home page. The address is http:// www.csupomona.edu/ehs. The EH&S home page offers “Jump To” access to various state and federal regulatory agencies and information. Besides the California Department of Industrial Relations, the agencies that can be reached … Read More »

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OSHA Training Institute San Diego Courses

SACRAMENTO – The Pacific Coast Education Center of the OSHA Training Institute provides standards-based occupational health and safety training for federal agencies and the private sector under cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor. Three different high-voltage electrical safety courses have been developed by the center in partnership with San Diego Gas and Electric … Read More »

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