Comments by the manager of Cal/OSHA’s Northern California Process Safety Management (PSM) Unit have triggered a major rewrite of a Cal/OSH Standards Board proposal on mechanical refrigeration safety. The changes are in a 15-day notice of proposed modification by the board, for which comments are due Dec. 5. The proposal has its roots in a …
A subcontractor on a high-rise hotel project in San Diego that was the scene of a natural gas explosion in May that badly burned three workers has been charged with four serious violations, with proposed penalties of almost $70,000. California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) says Sherwood Mechanical, Inc., of San Diego failed …
GLENDALE — Participants in the Nov. 20 Cal/OSH Standards Board meeting were searching for apt analogies after a two-hour public meeting dominated by discussion of a petition on new California Air Resources Board (CARB) requirements for off-road construction equipment. “Cal/OSHA versus CARB” and “Godzilla versus Rodan” were just two of the titles that observers suggested …
GLENDALE — Fed-OSHA thinks proposed Cal/OSHA revisions on crane safety dealing with outriggers are at least as effective as its regulations, and apparently the regulated public has no problem with them either. A Nov. 20 public hearing on revisions to General Industry Safety Orders §4994 produced no comments one way or the other. The proposal …
Four California workers died within a span of six days last week and another was critically injured in workplace incidents that are now under investigation by the state Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH). The spate of incidents began Nov. 17 in Anaheim when the owner-operator of Killco Guaranteed Pest Service was killed while …
OAKLAND – California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) wants to make its penalty system less onerous, especially for small employers, and get them to abate hazardous conditions quickly. So it is considering a new structure that, among other things, would credit 50% of a proposed penalty if the employer deals hazards it right …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) has cited two employers in the April electrocution of a crane operator who had knocked down a power pole. Sully-Miller Contracting Co. and Hill Crane Service were cited in the April 16 incident, which also injured two other workers. The incident occurred in Adelanto at about 8 …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating three recent workplace fatalities, including a mishap in an elevator maintenance operation, an equipment accident and a death at a Bay Area horse-racing track. The fatal incidents began Nov. 12 when a worker died while trying to gain access to an elevator hoistway. According to Department …