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Comment Period Starts On Rigging, Mechanical Refrigeration Proposals

The Cal/OSH Standards Board has officially published rulemaking changes aimed at preventing rigged loads hoisted by cranes from falling on workers, and helping employers comply with rules of mechanical refrigeration. The publication started a 45-day comment period that ends with a public hearing in Costa Mesa on July 17. PROPERLY RIGGED (HANDLING LOADS): Proposed revisions … Read More »

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Board Denies Variance On Old Press Brake, Grants One On Baler Interlock

Among 37 variances voted on by the Cal/OSH Standards Board at its May 15 meeting (most dealt with elevators) only two actually addressed workplace safety. The board denied a variance to a Stockton company on a 60-year-old press brake to allow it to be operated without the guarding required by General Industry Safety Orders (GISO) … Read More »

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Mum’s The Word On CPHs, Tractors

SAN DIEGO – Proposed changes to Construction Safety Orders (CSO) on construction personnel hoist car-top operations and the General Industry Safety Orders (GISO) on agricultural tractors received no comments, either written or verbal, during a 45-day comment period that ended with a Standards Board public hearing May 15. As a result, the board is set … Read More »

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Standards Board Makes Steel Erection, Table Saw Revisions Official

SAN DIEGO – In a relatively quiet – and quick – meeting of the Cal/OSH Standards Board, the most noteworthy agenda items were two rulemaking revisions the board adopted. The approved revisions to the Construction Safety Orders allow work to continue on high-rise buildings even if some connections haven’t been completed below. It also approved … Read More »

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Doubts On “All-In-One” Form

In last week’s issue, we asked for comments on a safety manager’s dilemma. Is an “all-in-one” form intended for tailgate meetings and covering safety meeting attendance, rest breaks and injury reports that workers would be required to complete a “good thing or a bad thing,” the safety manager asks. (May 16, 2008, p. 9188.) So … Read More »

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San Diego Blast Injures 13 Workers

California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating a May 19 explosion at a San Diego high-rise construction project that injured 13 workers, three critically. One firefighter was slightly injured in the response effort. A utility room at the San Diego Hilton Bayfront project, adjacent to the city’s convention center, exploded after natural gas … Read More »

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Ag Labor Summit, June 11

AgSafe, Cal State-Fresno’s Center for Agricultural Business and Saqui & Raimondo, Counselors to Management, present the Agricultural Labor and Employment Summit, June 11 at Harris Ranch near Coalinga. The half-day conference features: “New Perspectives and Emerging Issues on Agricultural Safety and Health,” with Division of Occupational Safety and Health regional manager William Krycia “Immigration Reform … Read More »

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Employer Drops Appeal In Ladder Access Case; Others Also End Appeals

Three employers have ended their appeals to the Superior Court system in Cal/OSHA citation cases, effectively affirming Appeals Board Decisions After Reconsideration. HFS Investments, dba Hadley Auto Transport: After Cal/OSHA cited the company for failing to provide ladders and fall protection for employees required to work in storage areas above truck cabs, the employer appealed, … Read More »

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