Cal/OSHA has hung red tags on two California employers for alleged violations that endangered workers. One was for heat illness violations an inspector observed at a farming operation, and the other was for potential exposure to asbestos. On Aug. 16, a safety engineer for the Division of Occupational Safety and Health Bakersfield office issued an …
The Sacramento chapter of the American Society of Safety Engineers is holding its annual safety symposium on Oct. 9 at the Woodlake Conference Center. The daylong event features eight sessions, including an address by Christine Baker, director of the Department of Industrial Relations, Cal/OSHA’s parent organization. Gary McIver, senior safety engineer for DOSH Region 2, …
SACRAMENTO – Over the objections of one member and the votes of two others, the Cal/OSH Standards Board granted a variance at its Aug. 15 meeting that allows U.S. Cold Storage to use less-than-standard width in its cold storage aisles for industrial truck passage. “The whole thing stinks and I’m not okay with it,” said …
By a majority vote following a public hearing, the Cal/OSH Standards Board has adopted the following revision to a Title 8 safety order. It has been approved by the Office of Administrative Law and now is in the California Code of Regulations. AIRBORNE CONTAMINANTS, ETHYLBENZENE: Revisions to General Industry Safety Orders §5155, Table AC-1, were …
SACRAMENTO – Seemingly simple subtractions and substitutions to a General Industry Safety Orders standard on industrial trucks could have a host of unintended consequences, stakeholders said at an Aug. 15 public hearing and in letters to the Cal/OSH Standards Board, which recently published the proposal. Even Standards Board members urged staff to take another look …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health has started investigations into more than one dozen workplace fatalities since early August up and down the state. Aug. 5: An employee of Fresno Moving and Storage was killed while loading a safe. The worker was loading the safe onto the back of a truck when it began …
The Cal/OSHA program and Cal-OSHA Reporter are not affiliated, but they have one thing in common: They both are celebrating their 40th anniversaries in 2013. Cal/OSHA and its parent organization, the Department of Industrial Relations, are planning a two-day conference commemorating the program’s fourth decade on Dec. 5 and 6 at the Harris State Building in Oakland. …
The final total for the 2011 Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) for California turned out to be about 8% higher than the preliminary estimate of 360 workplace deaths. The 2012 preliminary count of 339 is lower still than the estimate for the previous year, so even if the count turns out higher, as usually …