California CSP Named One of NSC’s ‘Rising Stars of Safety’

The National Safety Council has named Stanley Evans, CSP, of Turner Construction in Los Angeles as one of its “Rising Stars of Safety.” Evans and 30 other safety professionals from around the country will be honored at the council’s annual congress, held this year in San Diego from September 6-12. Evans, 39, is based in … Read More »

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Workplace Fatality Update – Aug 30, 2019

Here are the latest workplace fatalities. There was a fatal fall in Signal Hill. A self-employed handyman fell from the roof of a residence in mid-August. In El Centro, an employee of Petree Farms was fatally injured when the tractor he was operating rolled over. The worker had left the tractor on an embankment to … Read More »

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New DOSH Chief Faces Many Challenges

Doug Parker takes over the leadership of the Division of Occupational Safety and Health at a crucial time. The chief’s position has been vacant, or virtually vacant, for months. There is dissension in the ranks, and the Department of Industrial Relations has yet to completely staff the agency to its authorized compliance safety and health … Read More »

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Major California Cities Exposing Workers to Squalor and Disease

Just three months after it cited the Los Angeles Police Department and the city’s Department of General Services overexposing employees to unsanitary conditions – resulting in typhoid fever – the Division of Occupational Safety and Health is going after the city again. This time, it has cited DGS and the City Attorney’s Office after a … Read More »

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Elevator Industry Objecting to Impending Elevator Orders Update

The Division of Occupational Safety and Health is expected to unveil its long-awaited revisions to the Elevator Safety Orders in the near future. And it is not without controversy. Even before stakeholders get a look at the package, an industry group is pushing back, saying it deviates from a national model code that many states … Read More »

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Heat Illness Investigations

In our weekly fatality section, there has been an increasing number of “unknown” causes of death. The numbers have increased as the year has gotten hotter and that’s not a coincidence. The Division of Occupational Safety and Health has opened investigations into dozens of cases that might be from heat illness.Most of the cases will … Read More »

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Eight Workplace Fatalities – Aug 23, 2019

The latest workplace incidents under investigation by the Division of Occupational Safety and Health include two falls, an electrocution, a drowning, a struck-by, and an arc flash death. The falls were on opposite ends of the state. In Magalia, Butte County, an employee of McMillian Tree Service was tied off to a branch while working … Read More »

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Even DOSH Can’t Agree With Itself

A dispute over a Cal/OSHA requirement for temporary flooring on multi-story projects has triggered a petition to the Standards Board by a Sacramento construction company. Even Division of Occupational Safety and Health personnel could not agree among themselves about whether or not employers can use alternatives to Construction Safety Orders §1710(l)(7), says Richard Manuel, safety … Read More »

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