Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating the recent death of a Southern California worker in a fall, one of many deadly such incidents this year. The Division also is investigating three other workplace fatalities, although the work-relatedness of two of the incidents is in question. The fatal fall was in San Clemente, …
Here are the latest workplace fatalities under investigation by California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health: In Brawley, an employee of Brawley Farm Labor was found dead in a field at 4M Farms, where he was tasked with doing irrigation work. It is unclear at press time whether this was a work-related or natural-causes fatality. …
Fed-OSHA has announced that it is extending the compliance date for its electronic injury and illness reporting initiative to December 15, 2017. The extension applies to employers across the country and means they must start submitting at least some data electronically by that date. But does this rule apply to California? The short answer is …
Anybody working with wood, be it a furniture or cabinet shop, a construction site, saw or paper mill or even a teacher in a wood shop, can be exposed to wood dust, and that can mean exposure to asthma. The California Department of Public Health’s Occupational Health Branch (OHB) is advising employers to protect employees …
At least three California employees suffered workplace fatalities in November. Here are the latest incidents, all of which Cal/OSHA is investigating: In Bloomington, San Bernardino County, an employee of Allied Universal Security Services was killed after being struck by a vehicle in the parking lot of a Federal Express facility. In Camarillo, an employee of …
From the workplace tragedies that happen all too often in California come lessons on what not to do and how not to do it. These incidents can help us learn how to keep workers safe. Here are some recently concluded Cal/OSHA cases and what they can show us. Gas and Indoor Spaces Don’t Mix Everardo …
Cal/OSHA’s Health Effects Advisory Committee meets on December 12 to consider new permissible exposure limits for airborne concentrations on six chemicals. HEAC, as it is known, recommends the Permissible Exposure Limits (PEL), while another group, the Feasibility Advisory Committee, later will consider the effects the revised limits could have on employers. The committee is scheduled …