While the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) considers whether or not to propose a standard to protect workers in indoor places of employment from the threat of heat illness, it reminds employers of all kinds that California’s hot season is upon us and they must prepare for the summer weather. The state’s heat …
An El Monte aircraft parts manufacturer has been cited by Cal/OSHA for six alleged serious violations in a December 2006 incident that took the life of a mechanic when a curing oven exploded. The incident came just short of two months after an incident in which another worker lost four fingers on a press. Proposed …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) holds its fifth advisory committee meeting on a potential regulation to address the risk of respiratory disease from the flavoring chemical diacetyl July 10 in Oakland. This is expected to be the last meeting before DOSH sends a proposed diacetyl regulation to Cal/OSH Standards Board. It will …
Imagine a work setting where access to the site is from a ladder set high in the sky, and getting there takes a hoist or another ladder. Workers use the ladders hundreds of thousands of times a year, sometimes with deadly results. Yet there are no specific rules for placing and using the ladders. A …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) is investigating a Chatsworth adult video producer for allegedly exposing performers to the HIV virus. It is the first investigation in the industry since two production companies owned by the same person were cited by Cal/OSHA in 2004 in connection with alleged exposures. DOSH’s High Hazard Unit …
As the accompanying photo shows, workers often will display great ingenuity to get a particular job done, but sometimes little common sense. Probably the only worse thing this worker could have done would have been to stand on the top step of his ladder “extension.” The photo was forwarded to COR by copy editor John …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) starts a new era in setting and updating the state’s permissible exposure levels (PEL) for workplace chemicals June 19 when an advisory committee will meet to begin considering more than 200 potential new and revised PELs. California’s periodic PEL updates were put on hold several years back …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) is investigating four worker deaths in two days in late May, including an explosion, an electrocution, a fall, and a vehicle mishap. Three of the fatalities occurred May 26. The spate of deadly incidents began May 25 when an employee of Airtech Service was killed at Mendota …