California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) is investigating the death of an employee of GTO Packing, Inc., of Soledad, who was killed Nov. 16 after making contact with a power line at an irrigation project at a Salinas Valley farm. The worker, whose identity was not available at press time, was part of …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …