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 …
The Cal/OSH Appeals Board, which meets bi-monthly in Sacramento and by teleconference in West Covina, announces that its meetings will start one half-hour earlier than usual. Board meetings now will begin at 9:30 a.m. The next several meetings are March 20, April 3 and April 17. Board headquarters is at 2520 Venture Oaks Way, Suite …
Robin Baker, former director of the Labor Occupational Health Program (LOHP) at U.C.-Berkeley, has been named to the board of directors of State Compensation Insurance Fund. Baker will earn $50,000 per year as a State Fund director and her position does not require state Senate confirmation. She was LOHP director from 1981 to 2010 and …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health has cited a sister agency, the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, in the August 2012 death of an inmate firefighter from heat illness. The Division also has cited the department, commonly known as Cal Fire, following a heat illness incident in Mexico, about 10 miles south of …
The Cal/OSH Standards Board is poised to adopt its “Horcher” proposal on the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) of hazard communication at this month’s meeting in Sacramento. And the Division of Occupational Safety and Health is ready to start talks on the parts of the GHS system for which Cal/OSHA regulations are more protective, plus address …
Hydrogen sulfide is one of the leading causes of workplace gas inhalation fatalities, Fed-OSHA says in making available resources to understand that hazard and control exposures. Between 2001 and 2010, 60 workers died nationwide from H2S exposure. It is a colorless, highly flammable gas recognizable for its “rotten egg” odor, and is known variously as …
A state Assemblyman has introduced legislation that would ease reporting requirements for employers in cases where workers suffer fatalities or serious injuries subsequent to the original incident. But soon after AB 326 was introduced, a Cal/OSHA official pointed out a flaw in the bill that likely will require amendment. And another provision of the legislation could …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health has started investigations into a number of recent workplace fatalities. The Division also reports a number of natural-causes deaths, for which investigations are not planned. Feb. 26: An employee of Gilles & Audrey Fleury Trust was killed while working on residential rental units in Anaheim. The worker, a handyman, …