NORWALK, CA – Women in social service — welfare, education, health care — are at serious risk of assault on the job, according to a study by the Center for Women in Government at the State University of New York in Albany. About 260,000 women are victims of workplace rapes, beatings and other forms of …
NORWALK, CA – Fed-OSHA has reopened the record for the respiratory protection standard in order to receive public comments on a report by Mark Nicas, Ph.D., related to assigned protection factors for the various respirator classes. Nicas prepared the analysis and report under contract with OSHA. It was entered as a post-hearing comment into the …
NORWALK, CA – The November meeting and hearing of the Cal-OSH Standards Board was very brief, COR was told. John B. Foster, the newest member, was sworn in along with Lyn Berman and William Jackson, who had been reappointed. Lisa Choquette, the health and safety director for California Professional Firefighters, submitted a petition during the …
NORWALK, CA – The California Professional Firefighters have submitted to the Standards Board proposed amendments to Title 8 3640, maintenance and repair. The amendments would require aerial devices and elevating work platforms to be inspected and tested annually in accordance with Chapters 2 and 3 of NFPA 1914-1991 edition.
NORWALK, CA – A new provision in Business & Professions Code 7125 will require contractors, as a condition of maintaining their licenses, to keep on file with the registrar of contractors a certificate of workers’ compensation insurance or a certificate of self insurance. An insurer must send a notice of cancellation to the registrar within …
NORWALK, CA – The Federal Register, an artifact of bureaucracy, is shrinking fast — an apparent response to the efforts of Republicans in Congress to reduce the size of government. FR contains rules and regulations, proposed rules and notices from all government agencies. For an electronic copy of an OSHA-related Federal Register notice, contact the …
NORWALK, CA – The future of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is far from assured. However, it has announced a meeting in the Hubert H. Humphrey Building on November 30 to seek input into developing a national agenda for occupational safety and health research for the next decade. The forum will …
SAN PABLO, CA – We are in need of a reader with an analytic mind who has recently cross-referenced California Title 8 with Fed-OSHA safety regulations and included a description of the covered subjects. We have had many requests for an update to the 1987 comparison, compiled by Cal-OSHA consultants in the Downey office. (The …