The Cal/OSH Standards Board staff has made official what an advisory committee made obvious at a March 22 meeting: The board’s proposal to codify employers’ duty to pay for required personal protective equipment (PPE) is dead. The board published a formal rulemaking proposal in 2011 that would have added a new section to Title 8, …
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California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) is investigating the April 4 fatality of a Bakersfield worker who suffered a long fall. The employee of Mericle Mechanical at the Tejon Industrial Complex in Bakersfield fell approximately 39 feet through a covered skylight to a concrete floor, according to Department of Industrial Relations public information officer …
Cal/OSHA is accusing two Southern California employers of making changes to a food facility that created conditions conducive to carbon monoxide poisoning, then ignoring workers when they complained of illness. In one case, the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) says, when a worker reported being so sick he was slumped over the steering …
Even employers with good safety programs can run into trouble if they don’t account for situations their workers can encounter at multiemployer worksites. Meanwhile, jobs where safety is an afterthought run a high risk of safety disasters. Those are the lessons of two 2010 and 2011 California incidents investigated by the Fatality Assessment and Control …
While the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) is busy replenishing its ranks after years of state-mandated budget cutbacks, its physical presence is shrinking with the shuttering of two offices, one each in Northern and Southern California. On April 1, the division closed its Monrovia district office, redistributing its personnel to nearby offices. Cal/OSHA also …
As California heads into the heat season, a number of organizations are offering free heat illness prevention seminars up and down the state. AgSafe, in partnership with Cal/OSHA Consultation Service and several other agricultural organizations, is holding two such seminars in the next two weeks. Later in the month and running through June, State Compensation …
Fed-OSHA has cited Anaheim-based Bridgford Foods for almost two dozen alleged violations at its Chicago meat processing plant, including four repeat violations. The agency proposes more than $118,000 in penalties against the employer. The Chicago facility received special attention as part of Fed-OSHA’s Severe Violator Enforcement Program, “which mandates follow-up inspections of recalcitrant employers that …