Fed-OSHA has announced awards of about $10.5 million in Susan Harwood Training Grants, and eight California organizations will receive grants for the coming fiscal year, totaling about $1,117 million, or 15% of the total. Across the nation, 79 nonprofit organizations will receive grants. Here are the California awardees: Targeted Topic Grants Asian Immigrant Women Advocates: …
A proposal by two ski patrollers for official recognition of advanced avalanche-blasting technology could provide superior safety to the one which is traditionally in use. Both the Division of Occupational Safety and Health and Standards Board staff agree. But the ski patrollers received an icy evaluation to their proposed language. The proposal is headed to …
Here are the workplace fatality investigations Cal/OSHA has begun in recent days: In Riverside, an employee of a company tentatively identified as of Kindness General Contractors was performing roof repairs when a section of the roof collapsed, and the employee fell some 40 feet, and was pronounced dead at the scene. In Perris, an employee …
On the heels of a successful clinical trial, Oakland’s Hound Labs is nearing production of a marijuana breathalyzer similar to what police use to detect alcohol. The company says production could start late this year. Earlier this year, the University of California, San Francisco, confirmed in clinical trials that THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, …
“We wanted to do something to help our employers change their behavior towards workplace safety,” says Lauren Mayfield, senior vice president of Safety & Health and Loss Prevention at State Compensation Insurance Fund. She’s referring to a pilot program to save roofing employers it insures money, and more important, lives. “It’s not just about loss …
Among the hundreds of bills passed by California lawmakers at the end of the legislative season are six related to occupational safety and health. In addition to ABs 1804 and 1805, which Cal-OSHA Reporter recently reported on (click here), SB 1, AB 1400, SB 363 and AB 203 are now on governor Gavin Newsom’s desk. …
The Division of Occupational Safety and Health and employers in a number of cases have come to agreement to settle their citations. In two of the cases, workers were seriously injured – one permanently – and in the other, the employer faced large penalties for serious violations after a Cal/OSHA planned inspection. The most serious …
The Cal/OSH Standards Board will reconvene an advisory committee exploring a potential requirement for brush and wood chippers used in landscaping to have “presence-sensing” devices to prevent workers from being pulled into the chippers. The committee met early in 2019 and reached consensus on explicitly requiring the aforementioned devices. The development is a victory for …