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Employers Cited in Fatalities
A Santa Ana company’s alleged failure to guard clay extruding machines led to the September 2018 death of an employee who was pulled into an unguarded machine. The incident has prompted the Division of Occupational Safety and Health to cite Aardvark Clay & Supplies for two willful-serious violations and more than $250,000 in proposed penalties …
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About That Stunning Audit …
The California Bureau of State Audits this week released a report concluding that a state agency director “committed gross misconduct when she repeatedly violated merit-based employment principles and attempted to retaliate against suspected whistleblowers.” The report has created a buzz in Cal/OSHA and DIR circles and the director in question is widely recognized as former …
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More Fatality Investigations
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating three more workplace fatalities, including a fatal fall. That incident occurred in Anaheim. An employee of Republic Services, a waste disposal company, fell from a work truck. He died about two weeks after the November 2018 incident, but DOSH only recently learned of it. In Sacramento, …
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Fatality Investigations Provide Lessons for Other Employers
The Division of Occupational Safety and Health has just concluded several cases involving workplace fatalities. The cases are illustrative of how things can go wrong for work crews and the consequences both employees and employers face. Here are some of the most significant recent investigations and the lessons they bring: In the case of Creative …
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Commentary: Time for New Leadership at DOSH
By J Dale Debber, publisher In speeches, I like to remind audiences that professional safety personnel are the unsung heroes of industry. They prevent injuries and deaths and as a …
OAL Gives Final Approval to Roller Guarding Revision
The Cal/OSH Standards Board adopted the change in January, and it becomes effective on July 1, 2019. It was a source of sore contention among some stakeholders, but board staff said the current ambiguity in could give employers the impression that they didn’t have to guard support rollers in some circumstances, which Principal Safety Engineer …
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Regulatory Year Heating Up
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: It could be a busy regulatory year. We said that in 2018 and just the opposite turned out to be true: The Standards Board held the lowest number of public hearings in memory ostensibly because a number of longstanding regulatory initiatives were held up awaiting economic impact …
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