A 2005 citation by California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) to a Southland employer for the lack of a “spreader” on a circular ripsaw led to a variance to the company. And it also has resulted in a regulatory proposal that would eliminate the requirement that led to the citation in the first …
Unless the Department of Homeland Security intervenes or a timely repeal gets to the president’s desk, the Real ID Act of 2005 will take effect Jan. 1, 2010. For those states—California included—not yet compliant with its standards, it will mean that legal residents of those states will not be able to use their drivers’ licenses …
The Cal/OSH Standards Board came close to directing its staff to draft a regulation addressing safety concerns on diesel particulate filter retrofits at its Nov. 19 meeting but pulled back after a staff member and the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) chief cautioned against it. But there was one breakthrough. The meeting produced …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) is investigating an incident at a Southern California shopping mall that seriously injured an aerial performer, who fell two stories. The incident was Nov. 28 at Beverly Center Mall near Beverly Hills during a shopping promotion performance of “Hunky Santa and the Candy Cane Girls,” by Ray Pierce …
Long Beach Memorial Medical Center failed to address potential violence in the workplace in its Injury and Illness Prevention Program (IIPP), and did not post an Emergency Action Plan in certain departments, California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health determined after an investigation into an April 16 incident that left three workers dead. A pharmacy …
It seems like yesterday that we were marveling over the end of the 20th century. Now we’re looking at the end of the first decade of the 21st century in the coming year. While we don’t expect Jupiter to morph into a new sun, as novelist Arthur C. Clarke envisioned in “2010,” we know for …
Private industry in California saw almost 13,000 fewer injury and illness cases involving days away from work in 2008, a 10% drop from 2007, according to statistics from the state Division of Labor Statistics and Research. Nationally, injuries and illnesses with days away decreased 7%, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. Overall, California private …
COSTA MESA — Dichotomy was on display in this Southern California town as labor and management weighed in on a proposed standard being watched across the nation. The verdict? Labor likes parts of Cal/OSHA’s diacetyl standard but has concerns about its usage triggers. Meanwhile, food manufacturers say that the regulation should include a permissible-exposure limit …