Among the many hazards residents, responders and recovery workers face during California’s destructive wildfires is the potential exposure to Valley Fever. Recently a Ventura County woman related the experience of her son, who contracted Valley Fever while helping protect the family property during the Thomas Fire in 2017. He almost died from the disease, she …
California employed more than 18 million workers in 2017 across all sectors including federal state and local governments. It is a slight increase over the previous year, but estimates of the state’s workplace injuries and illnesses held steady, while rates dropped. The data, formally known as the Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII), comes …
Juliann Sum, chief of the Division of Occupational Safety and Health since 2013, confirmed to the Cal/OSHA Advisory Committee that she will retire from the post. At the same time, Appeals Board Chair Art Carter said that he, too, will step down from the board he has served on since 2009. Carter will retire at …
California’s Office of Administrative Law has approved a Cal/OSHA emergency regulation requiring many employers to electronically post their Form 300A injury and illness summaries annually. Affected employers have until December 31 of this year to post their summaries for 2017 to the Fed-OSHA Injury Tracking Application portal. The Division of Occupational Safety and Health says …
The Associated General Contractors of California has honored some two dozen individuals and organizations with its 2018 Construction Safety Excellence awards. It is the 31st installment of the competition. AGC presented the awards October 26 in Squaw Valley. Cal-OSHA Reporter served as one of the judges in the competition. AGC recognized Joe Sorrells of Monterey …
Cal/OSHA is investigating four more workplace fatalities, including three falls, the most common source of worker deaths. They include: The death in Escondido to the owner of T Mosser Co., a tree-trimming firm. The man was working 60 feet up a eucalyptus tree when he fell. He was transported to a local hospital, where he …
Stakeholders are doing a deep dive into Cal/OSHA’s latest iteration of what soon will be the country’s first proposal for an indoor heat illness prevention regulation. What they are finding is quite interesting. The Division of Occupational Safety and Health, which is writing the regulation, has until January 1, 2019, to send its recommended standard …
The Division of Occupational Safety and Health has released a revised “discussion draft” of a new standard to protect employees in general industry from workplace violence. DOSH is accepting comments on the draft until December 14. The real questions include: Has workplace violence abated since the adoption of the last standard? What are the actual …