SACRAMENTO – The Cal-OSH Standards Board has announced that the public hearing on the revised Tunnel Safety orders in Title 8, 8400 through 8568 and Appendices A, B and C, Underground Construction, will resume on Friday, March 24, at 9 a.m. in the auditorium of the California State Building, 1350 Front St., San Diego. The …
SACRAMENTO – On February 16, a superior court judge in Sacramento ordered the Cal-OSH Standards Board to enact the ergonomics standard or show cause on April 21 why he should not order it to do so. Judge James Ford’s order came two days after the California Labor Federation, on behalf of its members, asked the …
SACRAMENTO – Fed-OSHA’s final fall protection rule will be enforced in California by the Feds until such time as the state adopts an equivalent standard. To prevent jurisdictional conflicts from arising between Fed-OSHA and the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, DOSH and OSHA Region IX have agreed that there will be only one investigation …
SACRAMENTO – Cal-OSHA’s new system for allowing contractors to renew their annual construction activity permits by mail is off to a good start. Bob Low of the Division of Occupational Safety and Health’s (DOSH) Permit Unit told COR that letters explaining the procedure were sent to about 2,200 employers. By mid-February, he said the Permit …
SACRAMENTO – TIPP stands for Targeted Industries Partnership Program, an interagency compliance effort in which Cal-OSHA participates. The first TIPP sweep of 1995 was conducted in El Centro. Cal-OSHA District Manager Vicky Heza told COR that the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) conducted 50 inspections during the sweep activity. Heza said DOSH had …
SACRAMENTO – There must not be much Fed-OSHA presence in Idaho. A federal magistrate there on January 27 decided that 22 workers in a microchip fabrication unit in Nampa could go forward with safety-based job discrimination claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The case is Ko v. Zilog, 94-123. Zilog Inc. is based …
SACRAMENTO – The new Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation (CHSWC) has diverted money from its grant program to initiate a study to evaluate state services to represented and unrepresented workers in the workers’ comp system. The UC-Berkeley Survey Research Center and the UC-Berkeley Labor Occupational Health Program will assess the effectiveness of …
SACRAMENTO – Fed-OSHA, having been asked for more time by Organization Resources Counselors, the American Petroleum Institute, Dow Chemical and TSI Incorporated, has extended to April 14 the comment period for its proposal to revise the respiratory protection standard of 1971. The informal public hearing has been scheduled to begin June 6. The OSHA proposal …