Cal-OSHA Reporter recently heard from a safety manager with a double-barreled safety problem: a superior who not only doesn’t seem to be committed to safety but who also thinks the safety manager is the only one who should work on reducing workplace incidents. Here’s what the safety manager writes: “I was wondering if you have …
AgSafe’s 2010 Health and Safety Conference, scheduled for Sept. 9-10 in San Diego, has been cancelled, the organization has announced. “Unfortunately, as a result of the current state of the economy, inclement weather and delayed harvests, along with other unforeseen circumstances, attendance was not viable enough to substantiate providing the event,” AgSafe said. The safety …
The Cal/OSHA committee studying possible regulatory protection for adult-film performers under California’s bloodborne pathogens standard meets Sept. 14 in Oakland. The committee was formed following a petition by AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which seeks to require use of condoms in adult-film production. A significant portion of the industry, including some performers, opposes mandatory condom use and …
By a majority vote following public hearings, the following revisions to 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. UPDATE OF WELDING FIRE PREVENTION AND SUPPRESSION PROCEDURES: Revisions to General Industry Safety Orders …
SACRAMENTO — More than a year after Cal/OSH Standards Board rejected two attempts to promulgate emergency regulations to the state heat illness prevention standard by the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH), the board approved permanent changes to the regulation. Lauded by employer-oriented groups, but criticized by two labor organizations, the revisions give regulatory …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) is investigating a workplace death reported Aug. 13 to state Department of Parks and Recreation from hantavirus. The worker was a park aide at Bodie State Park in Bridgeport. Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) press officer Krisann Chasarik says the man worked at the front desk of a …
Cal/OSH Standards Board has published the second round of modifications to Cal/OSHA’s landmark proposed diacetyl standard in recent weeks. Early this month, the board published other revisions to the standard, which was heard at a public hearing in November 2009. Comments are due on the latest changes by Sept. 7. The standard, General Industry Safety …
The Greater San Jose Chapter of the American Society of Safety Engineers announces its 2010 Professional Development Conference, Nov. 4-5 at Portola Hotel and Spa in Monterey. The theme of the PDC is “What’s around the corner.” The conference is being dedicated to the memory of Joe Hourigan, a longtime safety professional and ASSE member …