Slips, trips and falls are some of the most common on-the-job incidents and also can be costly to employers. State Compensation Insurance Fund hosts a free seminar on Nov. 5 in Pleasanton to explore identification, evaluation and control of these hazards. Presenting the seminar is Jon Moldestad, a risk management expert who has provided safety, …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) has cited a Southern California manufacturer for six alleged serious violations, including one willful allegation, after an investigation into a March 19 incident that killed two workers and injured another. The action was among several that DOSH took against employers in workplace fatalities earlier this year. Jose …
Since 1973, Cal-OSHA Reporter has been a friend and partner to California’s occupational safety and health community. Through good times and bad, from natural disasters to Cal/OSHA “disengagement,” it has provided important information to the community. Now that California is feeling the full force of economic disaster, we want to support our friends in California chapters …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) is investigating two recent workplace fatalities in the southern part of the state. On Oct. 20, an employee of Advance Concrete was killed in Santa Barbara during a concrete pouring operation. The worker was holding a hose to pump concrete into forms set for a six-foot retaining …
An Alameda County Superior Court judge granted a preliminary injunction against the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) on Oct. 15 from obtaining medical records for an adult film performer who tested positive for the AIDS virus earlier this year. Judge Winfred Smith enjoined DOSH from “compelling or seeking to compel disclosure of confidential …
OAKLAND — The Cal/OSH Standards Board unanimously approved revisions to the General Industry Safety Orders (GISO) on Oct. 15 to ensure that portable augers have so-called “kills switches,” which can prevent serious incidents. The proposal was heard at the board’s Aug. 20 public hearing. The revision is the result of an interpretation by a Cal/OSH …
OAKLAND — After listening to more than three hours of commentary from labor activists, farm workers, employer representatives, municipal workers and virtually every member of the Cal/OSH Standards Board on Oct. 15, some of whom called for an advisory committee to hash out a proposal from the Division of Occupational Safety and Health to revise …
Former California Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata failed in several attempts to get a safe patient-handling bill signed into law in California the past several years. Now comedian-turned-politician Al Franken has introduced a bill in the U.S. Senate that would do some of the same things at the national level. Franken, a Democrat who …