SACRAMENTO – Stakeholders, including the Division of Occupational Safety and Health and Fed-OSHA, told the Cal/OSH Standards Board that part two of its rulemaking effort to adopt the Globally Harmonized System of hazard communication is a few tweaks away from harmony. The board held a public hearing on the proposal at its Aug. 15 meeting. …
SACRAMENTO – To hear one side of the debate over a revised permissible exposure limit on the chemical naphthalene, Cal/OSHA essentially caved in to industry objections and recommended a PEL that is hundreds of times higher than it has to be. The other side says any change from the current PEL ignores the latest science and …
After many months of work, Cal/OSHA has published its proposed rules implementing a 2012 law mandating “safe patient-handling” practices at acute-care hospitals. The proposal is in a 45-day comment period that ends Sept. 19 with a public hearing before the Cal/OSH Standards Board in Oakland. The new regulation, General Industry Safety Orders §5120, implements AB …
Chevron Corp. has settled a criminal complaint filed by the County of Contra Costa County and the state Department of Justice on violations of the Labor Code, agreeing to pay $2 million in fines, penalties and restitution, and institute sweeping safety changes at its Richmond refinery following the devastating 2012 eruption and fire. The oil …
The sounds of the winter holiday season on San Francisco’s Nob Hill and the subject “Connecting Sound Science and Responsible EHS Solutions” will merge Dec. 2-4 as the California Industrial Hygiene Council’s 2013 annual conference comes to the famed Mark Hopkins Hotel InterContinental. This year’s lineup of speakers includes some of the leading lights in …
Cal/OSHA’s deputy chief for engineering is urging agricultural employers who fear they cannot use tractor-mounted transportation units (TTUs) to apply for a variance that would allow them to safely use the units – and help educate the safety community about what works. But Deborah Gold, deputy chief for health and engineering services, says the Division …
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. AEROSOL TRANSMISSIBLE DISEASES RESPIRATORY EXCEPTION: The revision to General Industry Safety …
Ten years after California’s Hazard Evaluation System and Information Service (HESIS) issued an alert warning about the dangers of the chemical 1-Bromopropane (1-BP), Fed-OSHA and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health have issued a joint hazard alert of their own. The use of 1-BP use has increased in workplaces in the past 20 …