SAN DIEGO – The Environmental Information Association (EIA) has called a general meeting at the Waterfront Plaza Hotel in Oakland’s Jack London Square on August 11 from noon to 2 p.m. The organization has a new president, Bruce White, and hopes to revitalize its membership in northern California. The guest speaker on August 11 is …
SAN DIEGO – Safeway Inc. has completed production of a safety training video for retail meat cutting operations. The video was produced by Safeway, with the cooperation of the UFCW (United Food & Commercial Workers), using grant funds provided by the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation. As a part of the grant …
SAN DIEGO – The OSHA Training Institute in Des Plaines, IL, has added several new courses to its fiscal year (FY) 1995 training schedule. They include heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems; expanded health standards; principles of safety and health management; and safety and health in chemical processing industries for construction. The schedule contains 82 course …
SAN DIEGO – On July 23, three months after an unidentified firefighter filed a complaint, Cal-OSHA cited the Pasadena Fire Department for improper safety training and failure to provide fire shields for fighting brush fires, among eight citations. The city was given 30 days to correct the alleged violations. As a public agency, it cannot …
PORTLAND, OR – The Senate Rules Committee has finally chosen the eighth member of the new Health, Safety and Workers’ Compensation Commission. She is Kristen Schwenkmeyer, the secretary-treasurer of a telemarketing agency in El Segundo. The other three of the legislature’s choices are Jerry O’Hara of the Teamsters Union, Tom Rankin of the California Labor …
PORTLAND, OR – The Cal-OSH Standards Board has announced that the following safety orders, having had public hearings and review by the Office of Administrative Law, have been incorporated into Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations. They will be effective as of July 29. +Crane Load Drum Rotation Indicators (repeal), General Industry 4929(f), …
PORTLAND, OR – The Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) wants violations of General Industry 5193, the bloodborne pathogens standard, to be considered as serious, unless the employer did not, and could not with the exercise of reasonable diligence, know of the presence of the violative condition. The Cal-OSH Appeals Board late last year …
PORTLAND, OR – OSHA made corrections and a clarification of its final rule for personal protective equipment (PPE) in general industry, 1910.132, in the July 1 Federal Register. A few days later, it announced an administrative stay of key portions of the rule. On July 6 OSHA said it would stay until October 5 the …