Blog Archives

Three Amputations on One Machine in Five Months – – DOSH Issues Three Sets of Citations, $200,000+ in Penalties

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 … Read More »

This content is only available to premium subscribers. Please login here log in

Read More »

Fed-OSHA’s Logging Boot Warning

Following a recall by a footwear manufacturer, Fed-OSHA has issued a hazard warning on three models of logging boots that may have been mislabeled and could pose a potential hazard. In July, Georgia Boot of Franklin, Tenn., recalled some 10,000 pairs of steel-toed logger boots because of the potential that they had been incorrectly labeled … Read More »

This content is only available to premium subscribers. Please login here log in

Read More »

Trees and Cranes Proposal Ready for Standards Board Consideration

The Cal/OSH Standards Board staff has completed what could be final changes to a proposal for a permanent standard allowing the use of cranes to remove trees when that is the safest method. The proposal, which already has had a public hearing, was modified by the staff in late September and is expected to be … Read More »

This content is only available to premium subscribers. Please login here log in

Read More »

“Fit Business” Award Competition

The California Task Force on Youth and Workplace Wellness and the California 5 a Day Worksite Program have announced the second annual California Fit Business Award, which recognizes employers’ efforts to promote health among their workers. State Senator Tom Torlakson (D-Antioch), founder and chair of the task force, noted that the cost to employers of … Read More »

This content is only available to premium subscribers. Please login here log in

Read More »

Latest Variances (6)

At its September meeting, the Cal/OSH Standards Board granted three variances from Title 8 standards, each related to the Elevator Safety Orders (ESO). Gensis 2000 LLC, Los Angeles: Permanent variance from General Industry Safety Orders (GISO) 3277(d)(3), on the width of the pit ladder for an elevator in an apartment building. Applicant had renovated a … Read More »

This content is only available to premium subscribers. Please login here log in

Read More »

It’s Okay to Duck

SANTA ANA — Few COR stories in recent years have generated as much response as last week’s article, “Forget ‘Duck and Cover’ During Earthquakes – Now It’s the ‘Triangle of Life.’” The overwhelming majority of emails we received were negative, warning that Doug Copp, author of the so-called Triangle of Life theory, has been exposed … Read More »

This content is only available to premium subscribers. Please login here log in

Read More »

Worker Incidents North and South

SANTA ANA — The Port of Los Angeles lost a worker in a recent deadly incident and a Stanford University contract worker was injured while installing equipment at the school’s Linear Accelerator. On Oct. 6, a crane operator was killed when his crane toppled off a barge while he was loading sea urchins onto a … Read More »

This content is only available to premium subscribers. Please login here log in

Read More »

Latest Golden Partnership Firms

SANTA ANA — The Cal/OSHA Consultation Service has announced the latest companies to be recognized for their safety and health efforts under the Golden Partnership program. Six work sites have qualified for Cal/OSHA’s Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program (SHARP), which replaces Consultation’s Golden Eagle program. SHARP exempts an employer’s site from programmed inspections for … Read More »

This content is only available to premium subscribers. Please login here log in

Read More »