vCal-OSHA Reporter is pleased to announce the addition of Gary Warth, who has joined Providence Publications after a decades-long career as a journalist in San Diego County. After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism with a minor in sociology from San Diego State University, he worked as a reporter and later editor for a chain of …
Cal/OSHA has several employer recognition programs, from the Golden Gate program for employers with effective Injury and Illness Prevention Programs to the Voluntary Protection Program for companies with stellar safety programs. Cal-OSHA Reporter has added a new feature and will recognize employer achievements regularly. For the requirements of each program, click here to learn the …
In less than a week, the Cal/OSHA Standards Board is set to vote on the long-delayed and highly controversial revisions to the lead standards in Title 8. The February 15th meeting is sure to be long and contentious, with stakeholders making their final case to the Board about why the proposal is irretrievably flawed and …
Warning of a catastrophe waiting to happen, the union representing refinery workers in the Bay Area has petitioned Cal/OSHA to specifically include renewable fuels plants in the updated version of the process safety management standard. The current PSM revisions were adopted after the massive 2012 fire at the Chevron Richmond Refinery; the changes became effective …
More than half of the 25 Decisions After Reconsideration issued by the Cal/OSHA Appeals Board in 2023 involved late appeals or late petitions for reconsideration. In almost all of the cases, the Board ruled against the employer. The Appeals Board recognizes that few employers or employees have ever attended or participated in an administrative law …
Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health and employers have finalized several fatality cases. Here’s how those cases settled out: YRC Freight: This San Diego employer has withdrawn its appeal of four citations issued after the death of Raymond Glover, 81, a security guard at the company’s facility in October 2019. His primary employer was …
There are three new California workplace fatalities from the middle of January, two of them from falls. In Nevada City, the owner of Roth Tree Co. was killed in a fall. Thomas Roth, a tree surgeon, was removing a tree from the roof of a house when he fell from the roof. His employee took …
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration says it is prepared to assume jurisdiction for “all construction” in California if Cal/OSHA does not adopt its mandated six-foot fall protection for residential construction. However, the intimidation has few teeth, given that Fed-OSHA is woefully understaffed in California. “That it could seriously contemplate handling the construction industry …