California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health has cited a landscaping company in the August 2013 death of a laborer – and brother of the owner – in a fall from a ladder. Heladio Martinez, 50, was gravely injured on Aug. 15 while removing electrical wiring that had been stapled onto the joists of a …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating two workplace fatalities, including a double fatality in San Francisco and a death at the World Ag Expo in the Central Valley. On Feb. 7, two employees of Galaxy Granite were unloading a stack of marble slabs from a shipping container mid-morning in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights …
I want to thank Garrett Brown for raising the issue of staffing at Cal/OSHA. It is certainly central to our mission and to the larger objective of protecting the health and safety of California workers. As a District Manager, I know firsthand that my staff are enormously dedicated to their work and make a big …
A Cal/OSHA investigator wasn’t sure at first whether the fatal June 13, 2013, fall by a worker for Midwest Roofing & Solar in Pico Rivera should have been cited, since the worker fell about 17 feet and the roofing trigger height is 20 feet. But the Division of Occupational Safety and Health determined that the …
Division of Occupational Safety and Health onsite inspections based on accident, complaint and programmed reasons were down a bit in the first six months of last year from the same period 2012 and 2011 although the number of serious violations was higher than the two prior years. The statistics were compiled from the DOSH Program …
Critics of the leadership of the Department of Industrial Relations and Gov. Jerry Brown say staffing shortages at the Division of Occupational Safety and Health have left the agency unable to meet federal benchmarks and in some cases to fulfill its basic missions. But DIR is firing back, saying the critics don’t see the big …
One Californian is among the 15 members named to Fed-OSHA’s Maritime Advisory Committee for Occupational Safety and Health. Timothy J. Podue, of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union in Long Beach, is one of four labor members on the committee, which advises Fed-OSHA on issues related to safe and healthy working conditions in the maritime …
OAKLAND – To the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, the state’s heat illness prevention standard has worked, but there is still room for improvement. DOSH says investigations show that even employers who comply with General Industry Safety Orders §3395 have workers who suffer heat illness. The Division has a number of reforms in mind, …