Bo Bradley, who has served for several years as director of health, safety and regulatory affairs for Associated General Contractors of California, is leaving the association to start her own business. Bradley is a longtime construction safety professional and a former AGC Safety Professional of the Year “I am off on a new adventure, helping …
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SACRAMENTO — California’s Occupational Safety and Health Appeals Board overstepped its bounds when it sided with an employer and ruled in 2007 that the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) must prove that so-called “controlling employers” are in a position to abate specific hazards on multiemployer worksites, a Sacramento Superior Court judge has concluded. …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) says the $125 per hour it charges to inspect, audit, re-inspect and investigate amusement rides no longer covers the cost of the program, so it is proposing to raise fees more than 50%. DOSH will hold a public hearing on the proposal on May 3. The Division …
COSTA MESA — The Cal/OSH Standards Board adopted a revision to the General Industry Safety Orders (GISO) on March 18 that lets employers know when hot is too hot. The changes to GISO §3308 clarify the definition of “hot pipes and hot surfaces” to make it less confusing for the regulated public and more enforceable …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) is investigating a March 17 fatality in an underground vault in Benicia. The incident took the life of a 26-year-old lineman for Pacific Gas & Electric Co. According to Department of Industrial Relations press officer Krisann Chasarik, the employee had been assigned to pull new electrical lines …
COSTA MESA — It was the question of engineering controls versus administrative controls applied to an extreme industry, punctuated with tales of sexual degradation and warnings about overregulation. And that was just the prelude to a vote to authorize an advisory committee at the March 16 Cal/OSH Standards Board meeting. Hopes are that the committee …
OAKLAND — In a Cal/OSHA career that almost wasn’t, it took something of a Seinfeldian moment to secure Mike Mason a job with the agency that became the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH). Mason, the Division’s longtime chief counsel, has retired after more than 36 years with Cal/OSHA, and on March 16 he …