The Department of Industrial Relations and Cal/OSHA are reeling from the arrest – at the office – of a district manager on accusations of bribery. A longtime official, Richard Fazlollahi, 63, manager of the Cal/OSHA Santa Ana district office is accused of offering a quid pro quo: to reduce charges for citations issued to a …
Cal/OSHA is investigating three more workplace fatalities, including another fall. Two workers were killed by violence, including a Long Beach fire captain. The fall was in Long Beach, where a roofer suffered a fatal fall at Hawk Importers. The worker’s employer had not been identified as Cal-OSHA Reporter went to press. The violent incidents both …
Cal/OSHA is moving to revise its regulation on avalanche control blasting procedures for California’s ski industry. The move was prompted by the Division of Occupational Safety and Health and will be the topic of a Standards Board advisory committee in August in Sacramento. The move comes after two fatalities occurred despite using Cal/OSHA instituted procedures …
Sometimes simple operations go wrong. Nevertheless, after workplace fatalities it’s time to assess what happened and learn how tragic incidents can be prevented. Here are several more illustrative fatality cases Cal/OSHA recently concluded and what we can learn from them. In many cases, as you’ll see, the fatalities were caused by acts by the employees …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating three recent workplace fatalities, including two workers who died when vehicles plowed into them. In San Francisco, 34-year old Lilianna Preciado, a utility plumber for San Francisco Public Utilities, was killed when a vehicle that was being loaded onto a flatbed tow truck slipped off on …
Concluding investigations begun in the latter part of 2017, California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health has cited dozens of employers in workplace fatality cases ranging from fatal falls, crushings, tree-trimming incidents, even a deadly spider bite. Some significant cases are documented here: Pinned by Bean Bags In the case of C&F Foods, DOSH cited …
Cal/OSHA is hoping to increase fees for permitting and inspecting portable amusement rides, has released a detailed breakdown of its costs. The Division’s Amusement Ride and Tramway Unit (ART) wants to raise the inspection fee from $125 to $206. DOSH says the ART unit cannot operate under the current fee structure, which has been in …