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Party Status a Hot-Button Issue

Labor representatives and the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) say Cal/OSH Appeals Board is missing the mark in its proposed rule addressing party status for individuals representing deceased employees in administrative law proceedings. The proposed rule, unveiled at a recent Appeals Board advisory committee meeting, generated impassioned debate as some stakeholders felt it … Read More »

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Explosives Revision Gets Final OK

By a majority vote following a public hearing, the following revisions to a Title 8 safety order 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. FIRING OF EXPLOSIVE MATERIALS: Revisions to General Industry Safety Orders §5291 were … Read More »

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Consensus on Diesel Shutoffs

SACRAMENTO — A Cal/OSHA advisory committee reached consensus on a rulemaking package that would require employers at oil and gas production sites to install automatic emergency shutoff devices on diesel engines near wells. The rules do not cover California refineries. The committee recommendation is a success for an oil industry executive in his quest to … Read More »

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Trench Collapse Kills Worker

California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) is investigating a fatal trench collapse Feb. 8 near Sherman Oaks. The worker was digging in an eight-foot-deep trench with a hand tool to uncover a sewage line when the soil collapsed, burying him up to his neck. A foreman who had left the site to get … Read More »

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DOSH Takes Complaints Feb. 18

The Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) wants to hear stakeholders’ complaints. Or at least their views on the complaint process, which Fed-OSHA said in its EFAME audit is not timely enough. DOSH is convening an advisory committee on the subject Feb. 18 in Sacramento. Chief Len Welsh says part of the problem in … Read More »

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AgSafe: Sowing Safety for 20 Years

A Cooperative Extension success story celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, welcoming close to 1,000 attendees in late February to an annual conference that seems to keep growing every year. Growing is what agriculture does, and AgSafe, which took root as a UC Cooperative Extension program in the late 1980s, churns out crop after crop … Read More »

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Unguarded Pulley Shaft and Loose Clothing Spell Fatality for NorCal Worker

An unguarded tail pulley on a bark conveyor turned deadly when a worker got too close to it and his clothing was caught in the spinning shaft. A Cal/OSHA investigation has resulted in two citations for alleged serious violations against the employer, Lassen Forest Products of Red Bluff. Manuel Garcia Gaona, 50, was discovered entangled … Read More »

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