SAN FRANCISCO – Cal-OSHA’s efforts to assure the safety of the work that is underway to reconstruct highways damaged in the January Northridge earthquake, without impeding the pace of the work, were hailed by Industrial Relations Director Lloyd Aubry in a recent news release. “The early reopening of the Santa Monica Freeway with a great …
SAN FRANCISCO – We think we may have discovered the cause of the slow and erratic delivery of this newsletter in recent months. Our new mailing system includes bar coding and is read by automated post office scanning equipment. The theory is that the machine is reading the “NEWSPAPER DELIVERY” statement on the envelope as …
SAN FRANCISCO – Included in this issue you will find a revised version of the Trainers and Consultants list. These individuals or firms are self-referred; COR cannot vouch for the services or training they provide. Please remove and discard old pages 62-027 and -028, dated 10-4-93, from behind the DIRECTORY tab (or the SAFETY AIDS …
SAN FRANCISCO – SB 1491 (Johnston) was incorrectly described on NEWS p. 00-5907 as an attempt to force the governor to fill the labor vacancy on the Cal-OSH Standards Board. COR got that information from a source thought to be reliable. The California Labor Federation hoped to get the language into SB 1491, “but the …
SAN FRANCISCO – The United Parcel Service delivers roughly 2.8 billion packages a year. Fed-OSHA believes about 8.4 million of them may contain hazardous materials. On April 1, UPS agreed to pay OSHA $3 million for not coming into full compliance with a 1992 corporate-wide settlement agreement designed to resolve a number of violations of …
SAN DIEGO – Compliments and complaints were tossed at the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) at the March 24 meeting of the Cal-OSH Standards Board. During the public meeting, Michael Moritz of Centex Golden Construction praised DOSH’s revised permit policy. He said Policy & Procedure C-41, by more clearly defining hazardous construction activities, …
SAN DIEGO – Eisert said 18 months ago SMUD had to buy and install the device in order to get a truck certified. “Until the San Francisco crane accident, utilities never knew of this requirement. But now I’ve got a file full of letters, variances, comments, etc., when all we need is to see the …
SAN FRANCISCO – This week we are publishing the index to Vol 20, the 1993 EVENTS section (now renamed NEWS) of the Cal-OSHA Reporter. It covers pages 00-5515 through 00-5836 (100 page numbers were inadvertently skipped between -5617 and -5718 in the 5-31-93 issue). The index is numbered 00-5836.1 to -5836.5 and should be placed …