SAN DIEGO — Southern California Edison (SCE) has told the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) that it will return or not accept $35 million in state incentives for safety performance after acknowledging that it did not report minor injuries in many instances since 1997. SCE made its admissions last week in a meeting with the …
SAN DIEGO — Two new petitions for changes in Title 8 safety orders have been filed with the Cal/OSH Standards Board, one related to elevators and the other to confined spaces. ELEVATOR CLEARANCE HAZARD: Otis Elevator is proposing changes to Elevator Safety Orders 3020(b)(14) on guarding the space between the swinging hoistway door and the …
SAN DIEGO — California’s Office of Administrative Law (OAL) has approved emergency regulations adopted in September by the Cal/OSH Standards Board on fit-testing for tuberculosis in health care settings. Revisions to General Industry Safety Orders 5144 became effective Oct. 7 and are in effect until Feb. 5. The Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) …
SAN DIEGO — Los Lomitas Elementary School District in Menlo Park is the latest entity to obtain a variance from the Elevator Safety Orders (ESO) to install an AccessStair platform wheelchair lift. The Cal/OSH Standards Board has granted a number of variances around the state in recent years for the devices. Unlike traditional wheelchair lifts, …
SAN DIEGO — The Cal/OSH Standards Board Oct. 21 authorized an advisory committee to study a petition from the construction industry asking for changes to the Construction Safety Orders (CSO) on the use of nail guns. While the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) opposes the proposed changes, per se, it is supportive of …
California’s Office of Administrative Law (OAL) has approved emergency revisions to General Industry Safety Orders (GISO) 3456, providing a general ban on the practice of hand weeding in agriculture. The emergency provisions were effective Oct. 7 and will expire Feb. 5, 2005. A proposal to adopt a permanent standard has been noticed for public comment …
The California District Attorneys Association (CDAA) and the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) sponsor seminars in early and mid November on prosecuting workplace safety cases, and dealing with Latino workplace injuries, respectively. Nov. 8-10, CDAA holds a two-and-a-half-day seminar, “Worker Safety Violations,” designed for prosecutors, investigators and Cal/OSHA personnel, at the Sonoma County Sheraton …
A Chino cabinet-making facility has been cited following three separate investigations by the Division of Occupational Safety and Health’s High Hazard Unit (HHU) into several amputations on the same machine within five months. One of the amputations had not even been reported to Cal/OSHA, triggering a willful/regulatory violation of reporting requirements and a proposed $25,000 …