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Broad Support for Proposal to Clarify – High-Rise Floor Opening Rules

Proposed revisions to the Construction Safety Orders on high-rise floor openings would provide regulatory clarity to employers and help protect lives by establishing procedures for removing temporary covers, construction industry professionals told Cal/OSH Standards Board at a Nov. 17 public hearing on the proposal. Conversely, one major construction group opposed the change, saying the board … Read More »

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Standards Board Denies Petitions on Multiple-Language Crane Tests

LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE — Employers are free to apply for accreditation as crane operator certifiers and administer tests in languages other than English, Cal/OSH Standards Board said in denying two petitions seeking to drop a purported requirement in the General Industry Safety Orders for English-only crane operator exams. Nothing in GISO 5006.1 requires testing in … Read More »

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Changes to Electric Shock Protection Proposal-Excavation Clarification

Cal/OSH Standards Board has published a 15-day notice of proposed modifications that would exempt some excavations from its proposal to protect construction workers from electrical shocks when conducting demolition and other operations. The proposal would add three new subsections to Construction Safety Orders (CSO) 1518(d) to ensure that employers locate buried, energized circuits before work … Read More »

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DOSH Safety Matrix

Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) has published a lengthy document outlining training requirements for employers in construction and general industry. The document is similar to a training matrix compiled by Paul Burnett, safety program administrator for Santa Clara County Water District and published in Cal-OSHA Reporter March 12, 2004 (p. 8164). We include … Read More »

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How to Turn Around a Bureaucracy: – Appeals Board Embracing Change, Digging into Big Backlog of Cases

OAKLAND — There is light at the end of the tunnel for Cal/OSH Appeals Board and its long-standing backlog of appeals cases, said Candice Traeger, new board chairperson. The good news: it is a train. “I’m fond of saying to the people at the board that there’s a train coming. You have two choices: Get … Read More »

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Employers Seem Lukewarm, But DOSH Committed to Heat Illness Standard

OAKLAND — There is plenty of interest in Cal/OSHA’s proposed permanent heat illness standard, as evidenced by the packed room at the Harris State Building Nov. 10 for the latest advisory committee meeting on the landmark standard. But there appears to be little agreement on what the standard should look like, with employer representatives showing … Read More »

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Day Laborer Dies of Hyperthermia

California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) reports that a day laborer working in San Diego’s construction industry died Nov. 1 of hyperthermia. The worker, whose identity had not been released at press time, was employed by Johnson WA Construction on a roofing project at a residence in San Diego. The mother of the … Read More »

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Worker Hurt in Pumpkin Mishap

California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating an incident in the Sacramento Valley town of Willows in which a foreman for an agricultural concern was seriously injured during a pumpkin operation Oct. 30. Vidal Martinez, 46, was reportedly moving pumpkins by auger from a field to a storage vessel when his foot became … Read More »

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