FAIRFIELD — Travis Air Force Base, a city-size military installation between the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and burgeoning cities along the Interstate 80 corridor, has an ambitious goal. It wants all its squadrons and units to become certified in the federal Voluntary Protection Program. The base has taken its first step with the certification of David …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) is investigating the April 7 death of a worker in San Pablo who fell off a roof while performing an installation of solar panels. The employee of Solar City Corp. was on a roof at about 43 feet and was walking backward when he fell off the two-story …
When it rains it pours. California is enjoying plentiful precipitation this season. Now the man who oversees safety for a county agency that manages water is being honored as Safety Professional of the Year by the Safety Center, based in Sacramento. Mike Landy, safety manager for Sacramento County Department of Water Resources, was feted at …
The California Bureau of State Audits (BSA) has taken the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) to task for a whopping $37 fiscal-year 2008 expenditure Cal/OSHA made after the funding period ended. “Although the amounts we identified are small, if Industrial Relations does not establish and adhere to controls that prevent the charging of costs to …
State and local government workers across the country suffered more than 277,000 injuries and illnesses requiring days away from work in 2008, at rates far higher than in private industry, according to statistics recently released by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Combined, state and local government showed a rate of 187.6 cases per …
Bimbo Bakeries’ approach to machine guarding continues to expose workers to serious injury, California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) says, so the agency has cited three company locations for several alleged willful and numerous serious violations, and more than $230,000 in proposed penalties. The citations were issued to Bimbo facilities in Escondido, Montebello …
The Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) Santa Rosa district office is investigating an April 5 Sonoma County incident in which a worker suffered an amputation while working at a paper cutter. The 44-year-old printer operator, a 10-year employee of H&H Enterprises, doing business as Grafix Screen Printing in Cotati, was cutting paper with …
GLENDALE — Workers at projects managed by PCL Construction Services’ Los Angeles district office can boast that they have their signatures on the project — literally. Before they can begin work at the site, workers must sign a billboard created by Health/Safety/Environmental Manager John Viernes attesting that they’ve received orientation on the main construction hazards …