LA PUENTE – When Greg Gablenz, branch manager for BlueLinx, a Los Angeles-area distributor of building products, took over the job earlier this year, he got an unexpected task. In addition to keeping things running smoothly at the almost 40-year-old facility, he was also in charge of overseeing its certification as a Cal/OSHA Voluntary Protection …
Folsom State Prison faces serious allegations by California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) after eight prison employees became infected with the potentially deadly MRSA bacterium, yet the prison allegedly took no corrective action, didn’t train its workers on prevention and failed to inform Cal/OSHA about serious cases. DOSH proposes almost $20,000 in penalties …
By a majority vote following public hearings, the following revisions to Title 8 safety orders have been adopted by Cal/OSH Standards Board. They have been approved by the Office of Administrative Law and now are in the California Code of Regulations. PNEUMATICALLY DRIVEN NAILERS AND STAPLERS: Revisions to Construction Safety Orders §1704 were heard at …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating four recent workplace fatalities, including two workers who fell to their deaths and two others who were struck by objects. Oct. 31: An employee of Schlosser Forge Co. in Rancho Cucamonga was killed on Halloween while unloading a truck which was carrying two three-ton metal cylinder-like …
LOS ANGELES – As the Santa Ana-fanned flames of the recent Southern California wildfires have died out, Cal/OSHA is fanning out into the fire-stricken regions to help spread the message that cleanup, recovery and rebuilding can be done safely. A team of compliance officers and consultants from California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) …
Fed-OSHA has taken an aggressive stance toward Cintas Corp., following the March death of an employee at an industrial laundry in Tulsa, Okla. It has inspected Cintas facilities around the country and proposed millions of dollars in fines. Now Cal/OSHA is getting into the act. In the Tulsa case, the federal agency proposed almost $3 …
Surely you’ve heard about this by now on television and in newspaper headlines. No? In a second confined-space-related catastrophe within the past month, four workers suffocated in a well at a landfill in Superior, Wis. (Cal-OSHA Reporter News Digest, Nov. 5.) Early last month, five workers were killed in Colorado following a fire caused by …
A civil engineer has petitioned the Cal/OSH Standards Board to make changes to the General Industry Safety Orders (GISO) to ensure older tower cranes are safe. Dale Curtis, president and principal engineer of Curtis Engineering Corp. of Lemon Grove, says changes are needed to GISO §4884(h). “This proposal is necessary for public safety and occupational …