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Search for Pipeline Safety Answers Begins July 26 with Advisory Committee

Cal/OSH Standards Board and Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) will convene one of the most urgent advisory committees in years July 26 when they jointly chair a meeting in Oakland to uncover answers to long-standing problems in underground construction. Incidents involving buried utilities, such as electrical and fuel lines, are a common occurrence, … Read More »

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Where Does English-Only Crane Operator Test Requirement – Originate?

In your June 29 [Flash Report] entitled “Swing and a Miss on Crane Test Discrimination Claim,” you state the NCCA [National Commission for Certifying Agencies] is mandating English only crane operator certification examinations. This is incorrect. In fact, no entity is mandating the tests be in English. It is implied though, that English reading abilities … Read More »

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Harwood Grants Available

Fed-OSHA announces availability of more than $10 million in Susan Harwood Training Grants. Almost $7 million of them are in new grants to nonprofit organizations and about $3 million in renewal grants. The grants are for training programs or materials in safety education for Latino and other non-English-speaking workers and small-business employers, and for workers … Read More »

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Now in Title 8 (138)

By a majority vote following a public hearing, the following Title 8 revision was adopted by the Cal/OSH Standards Board. It has been approved by the Office of Administrative Law and now is in the California Code of Regulations. AUTOMOTIVE LIFTS: Revisions to General Industry Safety Orders 3541-46 and 3548-49 were heard at the Aug. … Read More »

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NCCCO Offers Dedicated California Crane Operator Certification Web Site

National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators (NCCCO) has assembled information on crane operator certification in this state into a dedicated web page called “California Central.” The site is a “central resource for operators and employers seeking to comply” with General Industry Safety Orders 5006.1, which became effective June 1 and requires operators of … Read More »

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With Legislation Looming, Heat Illness Committee Set to Meet Again

As legislation moves along in the statehouse, long-simmering discussions of a proposed standard to prevent heat illness in workers will be turned up to full boil as the long-dormant advisory committee meets again July 15 in Oakland. When the committee last met Feb. 15, 2002, John Howard still was the Division of Occupational Safety and … Read More »

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First 2005 California Human Cases of West Nile Virus Hit Southern Counties

West Nile virus has struck two residents of Tulare and Riverside counties, the first human cases of 2005. The mosquito-borne disease has also killed hundreds of birds this year in California. In 2004, West Nile resulted in 28 human deaths here among 830 cases, and 88 deaths nationally out of almost 2,500 cases. So far, … Read More »

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Court Denies Injunction on English-Only Crane Operator Certification Tests

A Los Angles County Superior Court judge denied a preliminary injunction to a Riverside nursery over crane operator certification tests administered only in English. Judge Dzintra Janavs said non-English-speaking crane operators are not a protected class under anti-discrimination laws and that California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) has a legitimate safety interest in … Read More »

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