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 …
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 …
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 …
SACRAMENTO – Giving former employee Paul Calden, who had shown violent tendencies, a good recommendation when he applied for another job opened Allstate Insurance Co. to a lawsuit, a Florida circuit judge has ruled. Calden’s new job was with Fireman’s Fund. He shot to death three of their executives after he was fired from there. …
SACRAMENTO – On September 1, a state court jury awarded $2 million, including punitive damages, against the manufacturer of Kent Cigarettes and a manufacturer of the Kent Micronite filters. From 1952 to 1956, the filters contained blue crocidolite asbestos. The plaintiff, 72-year-old professor Milton Horowitz, was a loyal Kent smoker who had never had any …
BERKELEY – This week’s issue contains an updated Trainers and Consultants List, which should be placed behind the DIRECTORY tab in your binder. Please note that the companies and individuals on the list are self-referred; COR cannot vouch for them, nor are we recommending them.
BERKELEY – AB 50 (Johnson and Pringle), the bill introduced December 13, 1994, to repeal from the 1993 workers’ compensation reform package the mandate that the Cal-OSH Standards Board adopt standards for ergonomics in the workplace by January 1, 1995, moved out of the Assembly Committee on Labor and Employment on August 23. The vote …
ANAHEIM – The first meeting of Cal-OSHA’s Construction Activity Permit Regulations Advisory Committee was held here on August 21. Chief John Howard welcomed the participants and announced that attorney Len Welsh and District Manager Lee Klein would be the co-chairs. Before he turned the meeting over to them, Howard explained that the Division of Occupational …