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AGC’s Winners: Company Safety Excellence

Six contractors, general and specialty, took top honors in the Associated General Contractors of California’s 2023 Construction Safety Excellence Awards. Cal-OSHA Reporter served as one of three judges. Here are the winners and finalists by category. Building Division, Under 500,000 Worker Hours Stronghold Engineering was the winner in this category. The company employed an average … Read More »

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Workplace Fatality Update – Oct 20, 2023

There are two new California workplace fatalities. In Beverly Hills, a drywall installer for Orange County Plastering was killed after falling from a scissor lift while working at Beverly Hills High School. In Lodi, an employee of Guardian Security Agency was driving an air-conditioned golf cart but hit the passenger mirror on the side of … Read More »

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More Lead Changes – Anything Big?

The Cal/OSHA Standards Board has published a second 15-day notice of proposed modification on the ambitious and controversial revisions to its lead standards. But how far do the new changes go toward addressing the concerns of employers? Comments are due to the Board later this month. The rulemaking project includes Construction Safety Orders §1532.1 and … Read More »

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AGC’s Safety Award Winners

Associated General Contractors of California has honored nine individuals and companies with Construction Safety Excellence Awards. The winners were announced at AGC’s Construct conference this week in Palm Desert. As it has in the past several years, Cal-OSHA Reporter participated in judging the competition. There were almost 40 entrants in CSEA, and all the competitors … Read More »

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Construction Bathroom Bill Signed

Governor Gavin Newsom has signed the only remaining occupational safety and health bill left this legislative season – AB 521 by Assemblyman Rebecca Bauer-Kahan (D-Orinda). The bill requires the Cal/OSHA Standards Board to draft potential rulemaking requiring at least one single-user toilet facility on all construction sites designated for “employees who self-identify as female or … Read More »

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Lessons from an Avoidable Fatality

On May 13th, 2022, a 39-year-old employee of Home Depot in East Palo Alto was killed shortly before the end of his shift when he was struck by cases of bottled water that toppled from an unstable pallet. After an investigation, it was determined that the employee was highly intoxicated, clearly a contributing factor. But … Read More »

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Workplace Fatality Update – Oct 13, 2023

There are seven new workplace fatalities in California. They include two in which employees were caught between objects or equipment, two struck-bys, a trenching engulfment, and a fatal fall. The trenching incident was in San Francisco, where an employee of D’Arcy & Harty Construction was killed in an excavation cave-in during a public works project. … Read More »

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