A seemingly minor event at a Watsonville farm ended in death for a worker May 26, while an explosion at an industrial facility the same day caused only minor injuries, but a major headache for the plant. California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) is investigating the death of an employee for A&A Farms …
Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety will honor individuals, groups, organizations, associations and businesses with its second annual Outstanding Achievement in Farm Health and Safety Awards, and is accepting nominations. The University of California, Davis-based center recognizes exemplary safety standards and practices, innovative leadership, achievement, support and/or meritorious service. Nominees are recognized for: Noteworthy …
The regulated public will get a chance to comment on proposed Cal/OSH Standards Board revisions to the decompression tables for pressurized worksites, and a revision to the Low Voltage Electrical Safety Orders on generators July 16 in Los Angeles. The pressurized worksite proposal would revise General Industry Safety Orders §§ 6070, 6074, 6075, 6080, 6087, …
Gov. Schwarzenegger has appointed Guy Prescott, director of the Assistance and Recovery Program for Operating Engineers Local 3, as the second labor member on the Cal/OSH Standards Board. Prescott, 54, replaces former member Steve Rank, who recently resigned the board after being appointed to the board of directors for State Compensation Insurance Fund. The Standards …
OAKLAND — There was a distinct lack of controversy during the inaugural meeting of the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) Feasibility Advisory Committee on chemical permissible exposure limits. Does that mean it is smooth sailing for the five substances with recommendations for new or reduced permissible exposure limits (PELs)? Not enough data are …
SAN DIEGO — If — or when — a deadly new influenza strain strikes California, protections from aerosol-transmissible diseases (ATDs) the Cal/OSH Standards Board voted to put in place May 21 would prevent the kind of incident related to the board by nurse Ingela Dahlgren before it cast its landmark vote. Dahlgren, a Camarillo nurse …
During enforcement sweeps in the Coachella Valley and San Diego County last week, California’s Economic and Employment Enforcement Coalition (EEEC), which includes the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, shut down five farm labor contractors (FLCs) for heat illness prevention violations that the coalition said put workers in serious danger. The shutdowns follow similar actions …
SAN DIEGO — The union representing maritime workers had some suggestions for improving rules governing a practice it actually opposes, and a one-sentence change to a previously adopted regulation generated plenty of comments at a Standards Board public hearing May 21. A third proposal that would allow the American National Standards Institute to accredit crane …