SAN FRANCISCO — Employers and the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) routinely appear before Cal/OSH Appeals Board administrative law judges (ALJs) in citation cases, but it is rare for the regulated public to hear firsthand from ALJs what influences their decisions. Cal/OSHA stakeholders got just such a chance for three days in mid-October …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) is investigating three workplace fatalities between Sept. 30 and Oct. 7, including two from falls. Sept. 30: DOSH was notified of the death of an employee of Francisco Macias Landscaping in Citrus Heights, who suffered a fall Sept. 19. He was working at a one-story residence where a …
By a majority vote after a public hearing, the following revisions to a Title 8 safety order have been adopted by the Cal/OSH Standards Board. They have been approved by the Office of Administrative Law and now are in the California Code of Regulations. PORTABLE AND VEHICLE-MOUNTED GENERATORS: Revisions to Low-Voltage Electrical Safety Orders §2395.6 …
California’s legislative season comes to a close with the governor taking his veto pen to three occupational safety and health-related bills and signing two others. No major OSH legislation will become law this year. Gov. Schwarzenegger vetoed AB 838, an indoor heat illness bill; AB 1561, a bill to require Cal/OSHA to do additional reporting …
Jogen Bhalla says he will continue to press Cal/OSHA to require shutoff valves in refineries and other process safety management facilities to prevent runaway diesel engine reactions, despite an advisory committee opinion that went against him at a late-August meeting. Bhalla, vice president for AMOT, Inc., an oil services company, points to a recent catastrophic …
Five Southland occupational safety and health associations host next week’s Southern California Joint Technical Symposium at the Grand Long Beach Center. Theme for the 2009 symposium is “Emerging Trends in Environmental, Health and Safety.” The daylong event is sponsored by the Orange County and Southern California chapters of the American Industrial Hygiene Assocation and the …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) and the Cal/OSH Standards Board have been at work on a first-in-the-nation regulatory proposal to control exposures to the potentially deadly flavorings chemical diacetyl for two years or so. Now it’s the regulated public’s turn to weigh in on the proposed standard in a comment period that ends with …
Three California organizations are recipients of Fed-OSHA Susan Harwood Training Grants to educate workers and employers in high-hazard industries. Nationally, Fed-OSHA has made $6.8 million in Harwood grants this year. Port of San Diego Ship Repair Association, State Building and Construction Trades Council in Sacramento and Asian Immigrant Women Advocates in Oakland all received more …