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Board Readopts Heat Illness Emergency Reg, Revisits Shade Issue

SACRAMENTO—With fog and cold enveloping the capital city, Cal/OSH Standards Board readopted an emergency regulation requiring employers with outdoor workers to take steps to protect them from heat illness. While the threat of heat illness during late fall and winter in California seems remote, Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) Acting Chief Len Welsh … Read More »

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Agency Seeks Comments on ROPS Standards

Fed-OSHA is seeking public comments on a direct final rule to reinstate its original roll-over protective structures standards for the construction and agriculture industries, as a result of the agency’s identification of substantive differences between the national consensus standards and the original standards. According to the federal safety agency, the direct final rule restores impact … Read More »

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Chao Speaks Out on West Virginia Mine Tragedy

U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao releases a statement concerning the loss of 12 miners in a coal mine explosion in West Virginia, and says the Mine Safety and Health Administration will investigate the incident fully: “Our hearts and prayers are with the families, friends and loved ones of the 12 miners who perished … Read More »

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Cal/OSHA Standards Board Announces New Chairman

The Cal/OSHA Standards Board has announced that former executive officer John MacLeod will serve as chairman of the board for a four-year term that runs through June 1, 2009. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed MacLeod in December to replace Jesse Navarro as the public member. The board says that its former chairman, Steve Rank, whose term … Read More »

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Fireworks Over Cal/OSHA Investigation of Pyrotechnics Manufacturer

An anonymous worker for a Northern California explosives manufacturer charges that the employer’s supposed callous attitude toward workers, and confusion over enforcement by California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH), led to an employee suffering severe burns this summer. The alleged whistleblower, who contacted Cal-OSHA Reporter by email through a third party, said the … Read More »

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Aerosol Transmissible Diseases Proposal to be Ready Soon-And Emergency Reg Sooner, if Needed

OAKLAND—Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) is targeting early 2006 to send the Cal/OSH Standards Board a groundbreaking proposal to protect healthcare and emergency workers from so-called “aerosol transmissible diseases” (ATD). At a Dec. 8 meeting DOSH Acting Chief Len Welsh told an advisory committee which is completing its work on the proposed standard … Read More »

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VPP’s Special Team Players

RANCHO CUCAMONGA—Dan Drown remembers the first Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) meeting he attended at the Sanford Papermate facility in Santa Monica in 1995. It was such a small group that they all fit around a little table, said the safety manager for CP Kelco, based in San Diego. These days, VPP meetings are two-day affairs … Read More »

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Title 8 Reform to Begin with Move of Compressed Air Safety Orders

Cal/OSH Standards Board ambitious reorganization of California’s occupational safety and health code was envisioned as being completed by July 2005. Instead, the board will take its first regulatory step in January 2006 with a public hearing on relocation of the Compressed Air Safety Orders (CASO) to make room for the new Agriculture Safety Orders (AgSO). … Read More »

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