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SCIF Safety Seminar In Oxnard To Highlight Dangers Of Gas & Electric Lines

State Compensation Insurance Fund and the California Utility Public Safety Alliance will jointly sponsor a safety seminar about the dangers of working near overhead and underground utilities including gas and electrical lines September 6 in Oxnard. The seminar, “Contractor Beware: Safety around Overhead and Underground Gas and Electric Lines,” is offered free-of-charge. It is designed … Read More »

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Desilva Gates Next Multiemployer Test

Overaa Construction is settled law and Harris Construction is Cal/OSH Appeals Board precedent on an affirmative defense for controlling employers, though it is under legal challenge in the California court system and in conflict with Overaa. Another multiemployer case, DeSilva Gates, is scheduled to be heard in Sacramento Superior Court Oct. 19. It is centered … Read More »

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California 2006 Fatalities Down

California workplaces experienced 4 percent fewer fatalities in 2006, resuming a trend interrupted by a spike in 2005. Nationally, fatalities were down slightly from the previous year. The statistics are from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The California data are from the state Division of Labor … Read More »

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Duncan Back At The Helm Of DIR

John Duncan, who served as director of the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) in the late 1990s, has been renamed to that post by Gov. Schwarzenegger. He takes over for Acting Director John Rea, who has been named general counsel for DIR’s governmental parent, the Labor and Workforce Development Agency. After leaving DIR in 1999, … Read More »

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DOSH, Industry Calling For Standard Giving Controlling Employers A Defense

OAKLAND – This spring, Cal/OSH Appeals Board gave general contractors the “affirmative defense” they long have sought against multiemployer-worksite citations by Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH). But the Harris Construction Decision After Reconsideration isn’t the only precedent-setting multiemployer case, and with a court challenge looming on it, its primacy is in question. Seizing … Read More »

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For El Dorado Hills Contractor, Safety And Success Go Hand In Hand

EL DORADO HILLS – In the Sierra Nevada foothills, a new gold rush is going on. But instead of 49ers heading to the hills to seek their fortunes in the rivers, residents are making their way to this historic region to live and work. The region has been going through a construction boom that astounds … Read More »

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Worker Crushed On Central Valley Farm

California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) is investigating a workplace fatality in the Central Valley town of Kingsburg. The Division also is investigating a number of non-fatal incidents in recent days. The fatality occurred Aug. 8 at Gustafson Farms. A worker was pulling a bin off a trailer, when the trailer tilted and … Read More »

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Advisory Committee Valley-Bound

The Cal/OSHA Advisory Committee will make a rare appearance in the Central Valley when it next meets Sept. 6 in Fresno. The meeting has been rescheduled from Sept. 13 in Oakland. The Fresno meeting is based on a suggestion from Fran Schreiberg from the Worksafe! organization. It starts at 10 a.m. in the auditorium of … Read More »

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