Just a reminder that employers must continue to post Cal/OSHA Form 300A in a conspicuous place. The posting requirement is from Feb. 1 through April 30. Form 300A information comes from Cal/OSHA Log 300, which details work-related incidents. The summary includes information on types of injuries and illnesses that occurred, and their extent and outcome. …
Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) has called on the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to remove a two-year roadblock to promulgation of a Fed-OSHA regulation to help protect workers from silica dust exposure. In a letter to OMB Acting Director Jefrey Zients, Markey called on the agency to “release this proposed rule immediately.” OMB …
A Sonora sawmill worker died in a lumber edger last July because the machine was not properly guarded and the employer did not perform monthly inspections to identify unsafe conditions, California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health alleges. The Division cited Sierra Pacific Industries for five alleged serious and several other violations and proposed almost …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating the Feb. 14 death of a worker at a mushroom farm near Gilroy. The fatality occurred at Countryside Mushrooms in San Martin. The employee was moving a 12-foot by 12-foot door weighing about 500 pounds when it became dislodged and fell on top of him, according …
The Division of Occupational Safety and Health says it will continue its confined space special emphasis program this year, after it instituted the program in 2012 to combat a surge in fatalities and injuries. The Division hasn’t finalized its plans yet, but says it will offer more webinars and training sessions. DOSH also says it …
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) has long sought to mandate the use of condoms during production of adult films in the Los Angeles area’s “Porn Valley.” Now the organization has taken aim at gay production companies in the Bay Area, Southern California and even other states with formal complaints filed with the Division of Occupational Safety …
Results of metallurgical tests conducted on the pipe that ruptured last August at the Chevron refinery in Richmond demonstrated that it was severely corroded from exposure to sulfide. The finding serve as a precaution to the petrochemical employers to pay closer attention to the potential for corrosion, say Cal/OSHA and the U.S. Chemical Safety and …
The Cal/OSH Standards Board has a new chair and a new public member, with the appointment of labor representative Dave Thomas to the former and Patty Quinlan to the latter. Both positions have been vacant since former chair/public member John MacLeod retired last December. Thomas, 54, of Modesto, has served on the board since 2010. …