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Cal/OSHA Agrees on Temporary Flooring Issue for Construction

The Cal/OSHA Standards Board has denied a petition from a construction subcontractor seeking an alternative to having to provide temporary flooring on multi-story projects. Even if the petition were shown to have merit, the variance would conflict with the state Labor Code, it says. The petition was spurred by conflicting opinions within Cal/OSHA on whether … Read More »

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How to Get Cal/OSHA Safety Recognition for Your Organization

Cal/OSHA’s highly regarded Voluntary Protection Program has 64 participants out of the hundreds of thousands of employers and worksites in California. That’s a drop in the bucket, for sure. But an employer doesn’t have to reach for a VPP Star to get recognition from the agency for a solid safety program. The agency has twice … Read More »

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Shea Homes’ Safety Stars

Shea Homes Northern California celebrated its third project site to be accepted into Cal/OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Program for Construction. At the same time, it said goodbye to the man who played a large role in creating the lasting safety culture making that possible. Ed Calderon, who spent 30 years in the refinery business, many of … Read More »

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Latest Workplace Fatalities – Jan 17, 2020

Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating four recent workplace fatalities, with three of them of unknown origin and possibly from natural causes. The only confirmed work-related death was in Alturas, where an employee of Schools of Modoc Joint Unified School District suffered fatal injuries while performing maintenance work on a school bus. … Read More »

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A Talk With Chief Doug Parker

New Division of Occupational Safety and Health Chief Douglas Parker has been on the job for almost four months, and is settling in, getting to know his workforce, and reaching out to stakeholders. Cal-OSHA Reporter recently sat down with Parker at DOSH headquarters in Oakland to get his take on the state of the Division, … Read More »

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More Cal/OSHA Diving Revisions

Almost two years after it moved to adopt federal revisions triggering objections from so-called “technical” divers, the Cal/OSHA Standards Board is moving to make more revisions to address those concerns. The proposal is one of two that are in comment periods ending with a public hearing on February 20 in Rancho Cordova. The diving proposal … Read More »

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Top Stories of 2019

Twenty nineteen is in our rearview mirror and 2020 is now in focus. It is sure to be an eventful year for California’s occupational safety and health community. But before we turn our attention to the days, weeks and months ahead, let’s take a look back at the major stories of the previous years, as … Read More »

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Latest Workplace Fatalities – Jan 10, 2020

In one of the first workplace fatalities of the new year, a Fairfield man was killed at Lind Marine in Petaluma during an apparent salvaging operation. The company, located by the Petaluma River, has an unused silo where oyster shells formerly were ground into calcium carbonate for livestock feed and soil amendments. Adolfo Sanchez, 31, … Read More »

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