WALNUT CREEK – Worker safety advocates again urged the Cal/OSH Standards Board to carefully consider moving ahead on a recommended permissible exposure limit change for ethylbenzene, which is 10 times higher than an earlier recommendation. But the deputy chief for health for the Division of Occupational Safety and Health says the recommended ethylbenzene PEL is …
Our May 3 story about the citations issued to Chevron and Brand Scaffolding Services for an October 2012 incident in which a worker was injured after a fall from a Jacob’s ladder incorrectly stated that Brand was dismantling a scaffold in the reactor vessel involved in the incident. Paul C. Guillory, director of safety for Brand Energy …
In response to stakeholders who objected to the Cal/OSH Standards Board’s proposal to allow employers to provide workers with “strap-on” foot protectors in certain circumstances, the board has narrowed the proposal and tightened its testing and inspection provisions. Comments on the Notice of Proposed Modifications are due to the board by May 28. Currently, General …
AB 633, which would bar most employers from prohibiting workers from voluntarily providing emergency medical services in life-threatening situations, was unanimously approved by the Assembly Judiciary committee and now is before the full chamber. The legislation is in response to a 2012 incident in which an elderly woman died at a Bakersfield retirement home because …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health is seeking more than $150,000 in penalties from two employers in the Oct. 3, 2012, fatality of a contractor worker and the serious injury of another when the false bottom of a tank gave way during maintenance operations. DOSH cited CAMS Juniper CA, LLC, and Brahma Group West …
Although it is not in finished Golden State form, the Globally Harmonized System of hazard communication officially became part of Cal/OSHA’s regulations with the announcement that the “temporary” Horcher adoption has been approved by California’s Office of Administrative Law. The hazcom changes, which went into effect on May 6, include a requirement that employers train …
Among the workplace fatalities California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating in recent days is the death of a worker at a north state airport who was at the wrong place at the wrong time. The 62-year-old employee of Arrow Asphalt was painting a landing strip at an airstrip in Biggs May 9 …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health has eliminated two of three willful violations from a citation package issued after an October 2012 fall from the Space Mountain ride at Disneyland Resort, reduced a serious, accident-related violation to serious and cut the penalty proposed for it, as well. DOSH has reduced the proposed penalties to …