PORTLAND, OR – After a fierce struggle, Assembly Member Terry Friedman appears to have triumphed over Joe Camel. Friedman’s AB 13 was amended again in the Senate, passed the Assembly on a 44-21 vote, and was sent to the governor. Asked about the bill in a radio interview July 8, Governor Pete Wilson said, “I …
PORTLAND, OR – Job injury claim frequency in California plunged to another record low in the first quarter of 1994, according to the California Workers’ Compensation Institute (CWCI). Insurers received 97 new claims for each $1 million of earned premium. That was 11.4 percent below claims for the same period last year. CWCI says this …
PORTLAND, OR – On June 27, emergency regulations were adopted for Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations governing accreditation of lead training providers and interim certification of individuals engaged in lead-related construction work. “These regulations encompass activities performed in residential, public and commercial buildings,” Rex Ehling, chief of the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention …
PORTLAND, OR – Assemblywoman Barbara Friedman’s violence-in-the-workplace bill, AB 3230, was amended again in July by the Senate Industrial Relations Committee. All that remains of the bill is an addition to Labor Code 6401.7, the Injury and Illness Prevention Program, to add “protection of employees from violence in the workplace” as the seventh element that …
PORTLAND, OR – Hoping to gain better information about the nature and extent of incidents of violence in the workplace, Cal-OSHA Chief John Howard has just issued a draft memo to Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) personnel. It was dated July 7, 1994, and passed out at the July meeting of the Cal-OSHA …
PORTLAND, OR – If Fed-OSHA adheres to its standards development schedule, the proposed ergonomics standard will be published in the fourth quarter of fiscal 1994. The level of secrecy surrounding the process is intense. Getting information about the “ergo” standard from Barbara Silverstein, the special assistant in charge of the standard, is like trying to …
PORTLAND, OR – JULY 21, SAN DIEGO: At 10 a.m. the Cal-OSH Standards Board will meet at 1350 Front Street, San Diego, for its monthly public meeting and hearing. Two sets of Elevator Safety Orders proposed for revision are on the agenda. The first is: CCR Title 8, Elevator Safety Orders, Article 9, Section 3071(j) …
PORTLAND, OR – Equipment Manufacturers Institute of Chicago has alerted its members that in California, unless they provide adequate warnings about the health effects of engine emissions, they may become objects of a Prop. 65 lawsuit. Some manufacturers of gas and diesel-powered construction equipment were put on notice of shortcomings in June by Pacific Justice …