SACRAMENTO — Cal/OSH Standards Board needed only 15 minutes to adopt three safety order revisions, and a number of variance requests (all elevator-related) at its speedy July 21 meeting. There was no public hearing at the meeting and no stakeholders offered comments at the public meeting. The safety order adoptions included a definition of Certified …
Cal/OSH Standards Board has begun a 45-day comment period on a proposed regulation based on federal changes that will culminate with a public hearing Sept. 15 in Sacramento. The “Horcher” proposal revises Ship Building, Ship Repairing and Ship Breaking Safety Orders, Articles 1, 3, 4, 6 and 8. A Horcher adoption is a verbatim Cal/OSHA …
SACRAMENTO — Employers remain opposed to SB 829, authored by Mark DeSaulnier (D-Walnut Creek), a bill that would change the way Cal/OSH Appeals Board conducts its business. Employers are continuing discussions with the author in hopes of coming up with something workable out of a measure they consider both heavy-handed and unfair to them. After …
The July 8 death of an agricultural worker from possible heat illness is one of five suspected heat deaths under investigation by California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH). The latest fatality was in Blythe, where the temperature was up to 107°F, with relative humidity as high as 65%. The worker, an employee of C. …
By a majority vote following a public hearing, the following revisions to a Title 8 safety orders have been adopted by Cal/OSH Standards Board. They have been approved by the Office of Administrative Law and now are in the California Code of Regulations. CRANES AND OTHER HOISTING EQUIPMENT: Revisions to Construction Safety Orders §1610, …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety (DOSH) has temporarly stopped considering permissible exposure limits for additional chemicals and will instead concentrate on recommendations already in the pipeline, the agency announced. “It is a resource issue,” says DOSH Senior Safety Engineer Bob Barish. The move will provide DOSH additional time for staff to work on rulemaking to …
Tom Mitchell, who recently retired after 10 years at Cal/OSH Standards Board and more than 30 in state service, left with the title senior safety engineer. “But at heart, he’s an industrial hygienist,” said board Principal Safety Engineer Mike Manieri at a June 29 sendoff. Attendees at the retirement luncheon donned Hawaiian garb and much …
A worker’s horrific death last November in a brush chipper was caused by the failure of a stop bar to work properly. Ironically, it might have happened because the ill-fated employee hit his head on the stop bar during the incident. California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) has cited Traverso Tree Service for …