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Safety Specialist Sought in Santa Rosa

Medtronic Vascular in Santa Rosa has an opening for a senior environmental, safety and health specialist. This position is for an EHS generalist with demonstrated experience in environmental/Cal-EPA regulatory areas and some Cal-OSHA and California Fire Code regulations. Major areas of emphasis include hazardous waste management, air permitting, industrial waste/stormwater regulations, recycling programs, DOT/IATA compliance, … Read More »

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Just in Time for Summer, Standards Board Adopts Landmark Heat Illness Reg

SACRAMENTO – Jonathan Frisch’s first meeting as a member of the Cal/OSH Standards Board was historic. The just-sworn-in occupational health representative’s inaugural vote was part of the board’s unanimous approval of the first permanent safety and health regulation in the country aimed at preventing heat illness. The board also approved another long-sought regulatory change on … Read More »

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Now in Title 8 (146)

Cal/OSH Standards Board has made nonsubstantive changes to General Industry Safety Orders §4650, which covers storage, handling and use of oxygen cylinders. The revision provides the correct inch-to-centimeter ratio for the required distance between the storage of cylinders and combustible materials. The revision is effective May 25, 2006. For more information, contact Marley Hart at … Read More »

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Worker Dies Under Load of Glass

California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) is investigating the June 19 death of worker crushed under more than half a ton of glass sheets at a Simi Valley workplace. The employer, Four Tech Glass, Inc., subcontracted to install showroom windows at an automobile dealership. A load of the 250-pound windowpanes had been delivered … Read More »

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Changes to Hazardous Pipeline Bill

As state Sen. Tom Torlakson’s legislation to make excavations around hazardous pipelines safer begins its journey through the state Assembly, the author has made a number of amendments to further clarify and define the bill. SB 1359, which has passed the Senate and now is in committee in the Assembly, is a companion bill to … Read More »

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DOSH and the “Unlucky 13”

Kiewit-FCI-Mansion is lucky to have Cal/OSHA still defending the willful acts of this venture. (“DOSH Finds Bay Bridge Builder Underrecorded Injuries, Proposes Willful Citation and $5,000 Penalty,” June 9, 2006, p. 8705.) Now I know how much fraud costs. In this case it carries a minimal $5,000 penalty. Most large businesses can afford to risk … Read More »

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PEL Revisions Now in Title 8

By a majority vote after a public hearing, the following revisions to a Title 8 safety order have been adopted by the Cal/OSH Standards Board. They have been approved by the Office of Administrative Law and now are in the California Code of Regulations. AIRBORNE CONTAMINANTS: Revisions to General Industry Safety Orders §5155 were heard … Read More »

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Dispute Over Fast-Erecting Crane Classification Riles Proponents

A California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) determination that mobile, fast-erecting cranes effectively are tower cranes and must be permitted and have certified operators has triggered a round of objections from manufacturers and distributors of the devices and even a threat to defy DOSH’s edict. One crane expert has submitted a petition to … Read More »

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