By a majority vote following a public hearing, the following revision to a Title 8 safety order has been adopted by Cal/OSH Standards Board. It has been approved by the Office of Administrative Law and now is in the California Code of Regulations. STORAGE AND USE OF FUEL-GAS CYLINDERS: Revisions to Construction Safety Orders §1740(b) …
Cal/OSH Appeals Board is appealing to the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) and its sense of justice in dealing with a company that has found itself in a Catch-22 situation on duplicate citations issued by the Division. DOSH cited Paloma Avenue LLC, doing business as Ground Zero Engineering, for identical sets of citations …
Although the regulated public made no comments at the Aug. 16 Cal/OSH Standards Board public hearing on two new safety order revision proposals, one board member let loose with pointed comments. Management representative William Jackson wanted to know why regulatory revision requests by the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) sometimes are allowed to …
Regarding our Aug. 3 story, “Cal/OSHA Inspections, Violations Up,” reader Jon Oliver of the Sonoma County Risk Management Division writes that while the total on the Onsite Inspections portion of the chart is 8,583, tallying the individual industries leads to a different figure. That’s because onsite inspection totals for three of the industries listed — …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) is investigating an Aug. 16 incident in which a worker was struck in the eye by a nail from a pneumatic nailer. The Division also is probing a workplace fatality and several other injury incidents in recent days. The nail gun incident occurred at a residential construction …
Contentious language that had construction safety professionals – and even members of Cal/OSH Standards Board – fuming has been excised from a rulemaking package on pneumatic nailers and staplers. The board published the change in a 15-day notice of proposed modifications. The public has until Sept. 7 to comment on the move. The proposal revises …
The Division of Occupational Safety and Health’s (DOSH) recent decision to forego a regulation on indoor heat illness in favor of educational outreach and enforcement under the Injury and Illness Prevention Program standard comes with a twist. The Division and California Chamber of Commerce are teaming up to form the Heat Illness Prevention Network (HIPN), …
SACRAMENTO – Cal/OSH Standards Board, heeding the pleas of the ski industry to adopt an “employee-driven” set of revisions, adopted what amounts to regulatory recognition of long-standing, but controversial, avalanche-control procedures. Despite an entreaty by the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) blasting overseer to reject two contentious provisions, the board voted unanimously to …