SAN FRANCISCO – Closer to home, the Board of Certification in Professional Ergonomics will offer certification examinations at various locations on April 10 and in San Diego on October 8 (the Sunday before the annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society). For further information, contact BCPE at P. O. Box 2811, Bellingham, WA …
SAN FRANCISCO – EORM, a consulting firm specializing in services to high technology industries, is recruiting for an industrial hygienist to provide support on IH projects as well as safety engineering and environmental compliance. Requirements are a BS in IH, safety or other technical field, with MS preferred; two to five years’ experience; strong math, …
SAN FRANCISCO – We’ve had a call from a reader about a typo that crept into the DECISIONS last week. The company name on Digest 18,365 on page 40-3063 should be Ceradyne, Inc. Please write in the correction. .ENDSECTION
SACRAMENTO – This is a true story. It illustrates Type II violence, the kind that might be encountered by a visiting nurse, a teacher, a lawyer, a nursing home aide or a social worker. In 1988, Alma, a woman in her fifties, worked in Berkeley as a social security claims representative. A 20-year-old man known …
SAN FRANCISCO – On December 7, nine people with varied backgrounds held a wide-ranging discussion with Cal-OSHA Chief John Howard about possible approaches to prevention of workplace violence. The COR editor invited the participants based on their level of knowledge and tape-recorded the conversation (with permission). Participants are identified at the end of the story. …
SAN FRANCISCO – MR: I like AB 508 because it’s not prescriptive but programmatic. It says you have to look at past incident records and analyze your vulnerabilities and figure out what you’re going to do because every building is different, every town is different. So it gives the employer the ultimate in flexibility to …
SAN FRANCISCO – RL: Yes, employees speak of the high level of day-to-day stress on the job. Why are harassment laws limited to sexual harassment? VC: We live in a threatened and threatening society. People use intimidating language. JH: But how can we evaluate what is a credible threat? MR: If you feel threatened, it’s …
SAN FRANCISCO – WANTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE: I only know my bit, MR commented. I agree it’s complicated. I would like an advisory committee to discuss all the pieces. SJ: I do know this. There are certain skills an employee needs to stay safe in the workplace: how to meet an agitated person without making the …