SANTA ANA — The Cal/OSH Standards Board will take public comments on the permanent version of its regulation banning hand weeding in agriculture Nov. 18 in Glendale. Also part of the public hearing will be a proposal to amend the existing prohibition on using guardrails as anchorage for personal fall arrest systems. HAND WEEDING, THINNING …
SANTA ANA — Textron Fastening Systems has a simple, yet vital mission with a fundamental connection to safety: It provides the fasteners that hold aircraft and satellites together. And safety is a fundamental element of day-to-day life at this 35-year-old facility in the urban heart of Orange County. Textron’s efforts to address its injury and …
SANTA ANA — The Grapevine Section of the American Society of Safety Engineers’ San Francisco Chapter announces changes to its monthly meetings information. The chapter now meets the third Wednesday of odd-numbered months. It also has a new section president and contact person: Reginald Whitaker, 707-485-6881.
The Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) has acted quickly on two recent fatality cases, issuing citations against employers in the cases, both of which happened in Napa. DOSH has cited Andrews & Thornley Construction for a serious accident-related and a general violation of Title 8 safety orders after a Sept. 13 incident in …
Federal OSHA is proposing three separate standards to cover exposure to hexavalent chromium (CrVI) in the general industry, construction and shipyard sectors. The notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) was published in the Oct. 4, 2004, Federal Register. OSHA proposes lowering its permissible exposure limit (PEL) for hexavalent chromium and all its compounds from 52 to …
SACRAMENTO — It’s not often that the California Chamber of Commerce is in accord with the California Labor Federation, but the two usually opposing factions agreed that California Performance Review (CPR) recommendations to eliminate the Cal/OSH Standards and Appeals boards are bad ideas. Officials of the state Labor and Workforce Development Agency (LWDA), including Labor …
SACRAMENTO — I read with interest an article in the Sept. 24 issue of Cal-OSHA Reporter entitled “Appeals Board Reverses Itself on Fall Protection for Warehouse Projects” (p. 8290). I was pleased to learn the board reversed itself and ruled in favor of common sense by including warehouse-type structures in a broad definition of “large, …
SACRAMENTO — A veteran rescue worker is advocating a new technique to avoid being crushed in an earthquake. Rather than the old “duck and cover” method – getting under a desk or doorway for protection, Doug Copp urges people to lie down next to a large object such as a bed or desk. When crushed …