Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety presents a seminar on pesticide exposure to farmworkers March 3 at the University of California-Davis. Dr. Thomas Arcury of Wake Forest University School of Medicine will lecture on North Carolina’s experience with exposure to farmworkers. The seminar is at 4 p.m. at 3201 Hart Hall. For more information …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating the Feb. 19 death of an agricultural worker in Dixon. The employee of McCormick Farms was standing on the tracks of a bulldozer he was trying to start, when the vehicle “started and took off,” throwing the victim under its tracks, according to Department of Industrial …
BENICIA – The first of what could be dozens of Valero Refining contractors has earned “Star” status in Cal/OSHA Consultation’s Voluntary Protection Program (VPP). Richlynn Contracting is the first entity of its kind – a contract services company working inside a refinery – to earn the prestigious certification. VPP recognizes top safety programs in California …
Age isn’t as important to tower cranes as is their maintenance, Cal/OSH Standards Board decided Feb. 20, denying a petition to severely restrict use of older cranes. Civil engineer Dale Curtis petitioned Cal/OSH Standards Board to revise General Industry Safety Orders (GISO) 4884, prohibiting climbing hammerhead and luffing tower cranes older than 20 years, or …
California’s Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation has released a packet of safety and health resources for small business under the Worker Occupational Safety and Health Education and Training Program. The program is designed to help small-business managers and owners provide interactive training tailored to their operations, engage workers in a safety program, …
OAKLAND – Portions of a regulatory revision by Cal/OSH Standards Board to give construction employers more options for providing drinking water at work sites go a bit too far, stakeholders told the board at a public hearing Feb. 21. The board also took comments on another public hearing item to require devices on mobile cranes …
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited an Alabama contractor for repeat violations after the agency visited three worksites last summer and fall. Fed-OSHA cited Gilco Contracting, Inc., for seven alleged repeat violations, with penalties totaling more than $300,000 after it discovered trenching and excavation violations. The firm had been cited for similar …
A Cal/OSHA advisory committee has reached consensus on changes to safety standards on forklifts to prevent worker injuries in rollovers and make the regulation current with national consensus standards. The changes could be scheduled for a Standards Board public hearing as early as this summer. Committee chair Tom Mitchell says the consensus recommendation was to …