LAS VEGAS – Hector Escarcega, a Los Angeles-area safety consultant and president of the local chapter of the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSE), gave one of the best-received presentations at the recent ASSE professional development conference. The topic was “The Seven Skills Safety Professionals Need to Have” and Escarcega displayed the skill of a …
OAKLAND – When the Division of Occupational Safety and Health announced in June that it was convening an advisory committee to discuss “possible changes” to the heat illness prevention standard, many in the regulatory community wondered what it had in mind. Did DOSH see flaws in the standard? Were there data that indicated changes are …
California’s scorching hot beginning to summer 2013 has the Division of Occupational Safety and Health investigating investigating two more potential heat illness-related fatalities, totaling three since the start of the season. The latest incidents were both on July 5 in or near the Central Valley. At Sequoia Lakes Conference Center in Miramonte, Fresno County, an …
In our July 5 story, “DOSH Cites Employer in Cement Mixer Confined Space Fatality” (p. 10632), we stated that a worker was killed “when a 1-1/2 ton concrete slab fell on him and crushed him.” We later detailed that the slab weighed between 1,200 and 1,500 pounds, prompting one sharp-eyed reader to point out the …
By a majority vote following a public hearing, the following revision to a Title 8 safety order has been adopted by the Cal/OSH Standards Board. It has been approved by the Office of Administrative Law and now is in the California Code of Regulations. WORKING ON (DISMANTLING) PRESSURIZED PIPE: The revision to General Industry Safety …
The Division of Occupational Safety and Health has introduced a new way for businesses to pay for permit applications for pressure vessels, amusement rides and tramways. The method for paying invoices allows permit seekers to use a “lockbox check,” which will process payments more quickly and shorten processing time, while providing security, DOSH says. Checks …
The Cal/OSH Standards Board has started the comment period on the next round of Title 8 changes to bring California in line with the Globally Harmonized System of hazard communication. The public also is being asked to weigh in on two other proposed safety order revisions, including a large decrease in the permissible exposure limit …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating three recent workplace fatalities, including two deaths in high temperatures that could be heat illness-related. On June 25, a worker for CLP, an employee leasing company based in Tempe, Ariz., was toiling as a general laborer at a new solar plant in Seeley, Calif. The employee …