SACRAMENTO – Those who attended the California Chamber of Commerce’s most recent Small Business Spring Legislative Conference were polled on a number of issues. One question was: “Should the legislative mandate for ergonomics regulation be repealed?” Eighty percent said yes. To the question, “Should all regulations be reviewed every five years and eliminated if no …
SACRAMENTO – Dave Sullivan, who formerly coordinated the crane certification unit, has been named manager of Cal-OSHA’s Covina district office. Doyle Riney will head the crane unit in Anaheim. Copies of the list of approved crane certifiers are available from the unit for 50 a page. To order it, call 714-939-8478.
SACRAMENTO – By the February 24 statutory deadline for bill introduction, nearly 80 workers’ compensation reform measures had been introduced. Californians for Compensation Reform (CCR) described many of the shots in “this salvo of legislation” in a March 29 special issue of CCR Update. The bills will be reviewed either by the Assembly Insurance Committee …
LOS ANGELES – All 53 general/prime and subcontractors at 10 locations on the Los Angeles Metro Rail project were inspected by Cal-OSHA teams from March 6 to 10. The employers had just received their citations and proposed penalties on April 6 when the Cal-OSHA Advisory Committee held its regular monthly meeting. John Wachter, the regional …
LOS ANGELES – The Cal-OSH Standards Board will meet on May 18 at 10 a.m. in the auditorium of the California State Building, 107 South Broadway, Los Angeles. The two items for public hearing are revisions proposed for General Industry 3422, tree workers’ saddles, and 4640, guarding of lint cleaner saws. As amended, 3422 will …
LOS ANGELES – The Assembly Labor and Employment Committee had a very long list of bills on its agenda for hearing when it met on April 5. Of eight that were related to Cal-OSHA, three were heard and failed passage. They were AB 269 (asbestos definition), AB 572 (OSHA standards) and AB 983 (injury prevention …
LOS ANGELES – Khalil Harb, 65, a security guard at American Protective Services Inc., surrendered to the police March 5 shortly after he had run from the firm’s South of Market office. Harb was in uniform. He has been charged with the fatal stabbing of Madan Bakhshi, 57, the APS scheduling manager. The police said …
– Cal-OSHA dropped the other shoe on March 31 when it issued one citation to IST Mechanical Corporation in connection with the October 19, 1994, gas explosion and fire at the Mobil Oil refinery in Torrance. The citation alleges a serious violation of General Industry 3314(i) in Title 8, California Code of Regulations which reads: …