Marti Stroup Fisher, a member of the Cal/OSHA Advisory Committee and a familiar face at Cal/OSH Standards Board meetings, has left her position as safety manager for Associated General Contractors of California to become a workers’ compensation lobbyist for the California Chamber of Commerce. Cal-OSHA Reporter caught up with Stroup Fisher, an energetic and knowledgeable …
LOS ANGELES—Six years after the controversial legislation AB 1127 took effect, dramatically increasing penalties for Cal/OSHA violations, Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) Acting Chief Len Welsh says he wants to examine how the law affects small business. Welsh, speaking to the Cal/OSHA Advisory Committee Jan. 5, said he intends to convene an ad …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating a Dec. 27 incident at a San Mateo construction project in which a construction worker plunged 40 feet after attempting to jump from an elevator to a building. The worker survived the fall. The man is an employee of Sheedy Hoist of San Mateo and the …
SACRAMENTO—In baseball terms, it was a one-for-two switch, if you will. Cal/OSH Standards Board chairman Steve Rank announced at the board’s Dec. 15 meeting that the board soon would have a new public member, replacing Jesse Navarro, and a new chairman. The governor’s office delayed the announcement until a few days before Christmas. It turns …
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 OF OXYGEN CYLINDERS: Revisions to General Industry Safety Orders §4650 were …
California’s safety conference and seminar season officially gets started later this month when The Safety Center hosts its 11th Annual Occupational & Regulatory Symposium, Jan. 25 at the Red Lion Hotel in Sacramento. The daylong symposium features 12 sessions on topics ranging from safety leadership to accident investigation. Keynote speaker for the symposium is Vicky …
The only comments on a Cal/OSHA proposal to exempt certain structural steel systems from anchor bolt requirements were positive. Cal/OSH Standards Board held a public hearing on the proposal Dec. 15, ending a 45-day comment period. There were no oral comments at the hearing. Division of Occupational Safety and Health initiated the rulemaking action last …
Cal/OSH Standards Board has published a new regulatory proposal that would remove potentially toxic sanitation methods for cleaning personal safety devices in the Construction Safety Orders (CSO). A 45-day comment period on the proposal to revise CSO Appendix B, Plate B-1, Sanitation of Personal Safety Devices, began in late December. The period will end Feb. …