By a majority vote following a public hearing, the following revisions to a Title 8 safety order have been adopted by the Cal/OSH Standards Board. They have been approved by the Office of Administrative Law and now are in the California Code of Regulations. FED-OSHA DIRECT FINAL RULE — HEAD PROTECTION: Revisions to General Industry …
LA MESA — The occupational safety and health profession traces its roots to a workplace disaster that took the lives of almost 150 workers. Since the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in 1911, the profession has progressed and workplace fatalities have decreased steadily. But safety professionals need to expand their focus to another area critical to …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating a number of fatal workplace incidents, most notably a trench collapse that almost was a double fatality. The incident occurred March 14, when an employee of Los Angeles Engineering, Inc., a pipeline construction company located in Los Angeles, sustained fatal crushing injuries due to a trench …
As winter fades into spring and California temperatures rise, California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health warns employers about rising temperatures and launches a new heat illness prevention campaign. The importance of drinking smaller amounts of water more frequently appears to be the focus of this year’s Cal/OSHA heat illness campaign, with the slogan, “Stopping …
A utility’s lack of knowledge about a violation involving the use of insulating gloves in an electrocution in 2009 resulted in a settlement between the company and California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health that almost halved the proposed penalty of more than $79,000. The settlement between DOSH and Golden State Utility Co. of Santa …
Moving machine parts can cause severe workplace injuries, including crushed fingers and hands, amputations, burns or blindness, Fed-OSHA warns. “Safeguards are essential for protecting workers from these preventable injuries,” the agency says. Any machine part, function or process that can cause injury must be guarded. When the machine can injure the operator or others in …
Tunnel disasters are not a thing of the past. They happen around the world, in places like China, particularly. But they haven’t happened in California for more than 40 years, and that is not the result of luck. It is the result of hard lessons learned and the dogged determination of a unit of Cal/OSHA …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating a number fatality and serious-injury incidents in recent days, headlined by the mauling death of a young worker at a wild animal park near Fresno. Dianna Hanson, 24, was cleaning a cage and preparing to feed animals at Project Survival, a wildlife zoo in Dunlap on …