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Cal/OSHA Investigating Fatalities in Elevators, Equipment and a Horse Track

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 … Read More »

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DOSH Takes on Sensitizing Substances in January Advisory Committee

California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) at a Jan. 21, 2009, advisory meeting will address the sensitive subject of airborne contaminants that cause dermal and respiratory effects on workers and what regulatory requirements they should trigger. DOSH has circulated a draft proposal that would add a footnote to the airborne contaminants standard, General … Read More »

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Welding 101

State budget shortfalls promise to put enormous stress on California’s college systems, including community colleges. In fact, unprecedented cutbacks and limitations are in the works. But a new pilot program instituted between California Community Colleges and the Ironworkers District Council is taking junior college students with an interest in the welding trade and routing them … Read More »

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COR’s Exciting Change

In the coming weeks Cal -OSHA Reporter will make the jump to an all-electronic publication, starting with a PDF delivered to you by email, and ultimately online only. Providence Publications is in the process of testing the new system. If you have not received a test email from us, please contact us at reception@earthmail.com. If … Read More »

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Cal Fire to Use Mesh Goggles

The Cal/OSH Standards Board has granted a permanent variance the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection that allows employees to use wire mesh goggles instead of ANSI-approved eyewear in chainsaw operations. The variance is intended to protect workers from injuries that can occur when goggles fog up. General Industry Safety Orders (GISO) §3404(a)(1) requires … Read More »

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Backlog by the Numbers

  The Cal/OSH Appeals Board backlog of cases — those that take longer than the federally mandated 10 months to resolve — is being whittled down to nonexistence, due to the concerted efforts of the board. The projected backlog for 2008 is expected to be the lowest since 2002, when the full effects of AB … Read More »

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Cal/OSHA to Adopt Federal Changes to High-Voltage Safety Orders

Part two of an update to California’s Electrical Safety Orders is on the docket for the Cal/OSH Standards Board December public hearing in Sacramento. The 74-page proposal would revise the High-Voltage Electrical Safety Orders, based on a Fed-OSHA final rule published in February 2007. The Standards Board adopted revisions to the Low Voltage Electrical Safety … Read More »

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Cahill Flies SHARP Flag

Cahill Contractors, Inc., which has made fall protection a centerpiece of its safety and health program, has earned recognition from Cal/OSHA and been accepted into its Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program (SHARP). In a San Francisco ceremony Nov. 3, Cahill became the first such Northern California recipient to hoist a SHARP flag. Cahill is … Read More »

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