OAKLAND – The Cal/OSH Standards Board adopted the long-awaited update to the Elevator Safety Orders, which should relieve many elevator owners from having to seek Title 8 variances on conveyances. It also will spare the board from having to conduct many – but not all – time-consuming variance evaluations and hearings on elevators and other …
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 …