Raising the possibility of a combustible-dust explosion in a City of Commerce food-processing plant, Cal/OSH Standards Board has denied a variance to the facility on a dust collection system that is on the wrong side of the wall. Gold Cost Ingredients, Inc., applied for a variance from General Industry Safety Orders §5174(i), which requires that …
In Cal-OSHA Reporter‘s Aug. 29 story about the Cal/OSH Standards Board adoption of a new regulation on control of dust in masonry operations, we attributed the following quote to board member Dr. Jonathan Frisch: “I’ve heard from ‘brickies’ all over the country about this.” Actually, the comment was made by fellow board member Steve Rank …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) has issued a stop-work order to another farm labor contractor to protect workers from heat illness hazards. DOSH slapped the Order Prohibiting Use (OPU) on Coronado Irrigation Services of Shafter after a drive-by observation by an inspection team saw alleged violations of the state’s heat illness prevention …
RICHMOND – Cal/VPP’s 70th Star site is a small hazardous-waste way station with six employees. Its 66th site is a huge manufacturing plant with hundreds of workers and dozens of processes and machines that can cause injury. What both share is safety excellence, as evidenced by their acceptance into the prestigious Cal/OSHA recognition and exemption …
The Valero Benicia oil refinery earned its Cal/VPP Star exactly two years ago. About a year later, one of its contractors, Richlynn Contracting, earned its own star. Now another contractor is well into the VPP approval process, another is expected to formally apply after the first of the year and several more are expected to …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) announces an Oct. 3 meeting in Oakland to reopen discussions of its controversial regulation on pneumatic nailers and staplers and ways to prevent worker injuries. The meeting comes after criticism that DOSH gave in to industry pressure in the advisory committee process to remove contentious provisions proposed …
By a majority vote following a public hearing, the following changes 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. STATIC ELECTRICITY: Revisions to General Industry Safety Orders §5168 and Petroleum …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) is investigating a late August incident that took the life of a utility worker in Southern California as potentially heat related. DOSH’s San Diego district office was notified of the San Marcos incident Aug. 27. The victim, employed by San Diego Gas & Electric Co., collapsed while …