PASADENA – The Cal/OSH Standards Board is down to five members – and only one with an active term – with the resignation of management representative Bill Jackson, who made his final board appearance on July 16. Earlier this year, occupational health representative Hank McDermott resigned, and the Governor has not named a replacement. In fact, …
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration found merit in four out of the five allegations leveled against Cal/OSHA in a 2014 Complaint Against State Program Administration (CASPA). Cal/OSHA management is firing back at the Feds with a few points and charges of its own. Among other points, DIR says outdated data was used in …
The Division of Occupational Safety and Health is working on nine workplace fatality investigations begun in the past two weeks, plus a number of serious injury probes. Several of the fatalities are likely natural causes deaths. Here’s a rundown of the cases: July 3: A 27-year-old worker for Pitman Family Farms in Orange Cove was …
The Division of Occupational Safety and Health has cited a construction company in the death of a worker in April who was crushed by a large metal pipe. The worker, 29-year-old Jared Overfield, was killed on a bridge project in Petaluma when the pipe rolled toward Highway 101 after a forklift operator set it down. …
The recently signed California state budget has some good news for elevator and conveyance owners – they won’t be charged for Cal/OSHA Elevator Unit inspections this fiscal year, and possibly in following years. And there is more good news: The Department of Industrial Relations intends to propose regulations to reduce the fee schedule. That’s because …
The Office of Administrative Law has granted final approval to Title 8 revisions adopted by Cal/OSHA on electrical safety at fuel stations. The new regs are effective on October 1. The changes come as part of its continuing efforts to adopt the Globally Harmonized System of hazard communication (GHS). The adoption affects workplaces with electrical …
PASADENA – The Cal/OSH Standards Board adopted three revisions to Title 8 safety orders at its July 16 meeting, two of them under “Horcher” provisions taking language verbatim from Fed-OSHA revisions. They include, listing the Horcher adoptions first: A revision to Construction Safety Orders §1710 to bring it in line with the federal counterpart standard, …
PASADENA – Richard Negri, occupational safety and health representative for Service Employees International Union, (SEIU), admits the union was able to obtain the latest draft of regulatory language on protecting healthcare workers from violence, which has not been formally proposed. The language has not been made public, either. Now SEIU is urging the Standards Board …