OAKLAND — Of the substantial number of cases taken by employers beyond the Cal/OSHA Appeals Board, a number have had or will in the near future be acted upon at the Superior Court level. Following are cases that have been decided or that will receive hearings in the near future. SULLY-MILLER CONTRACTING CO: A Sacramento …
OAKLAND — Fed-OSHA has announced that Georgia-Pacific Corp. is the first participant in the agency’s Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) Corporate pilot project. The project is designed to streamline the federal VPP application and onsite evaluation process for corporations that have made a commitment to the program. It also would eliminate application redundancy for different sites …
OAKLAND — The Cal/OSHA Consultation Service has released a list of the latest companies to be recognized for their safety efforts. New companies are being given recognition monthly under the Golden State program, which rewards high-hazard employers who are found during on-site visits to have effective safety and health programs, with letters applauding their efforts. …
A Sacramento County Superior Court judge has ruled that the Cal/OSH Appeals Board was within its right to overrule an administrative law judge and reinstate an $18,500 penalty against a financially strapped firm that spent thousands of dollars to bring its safety program up to speed after being cited. The employer, Pacific MDF Products, Inc., …
Fit testing will be the subject of the day Dec. 16 at a Cal/OSH Standards Board public hearing. One of the proposals at the hearing is a revision to the state’s respiratory protection standard providing a permanent exception on medical evaluations prior to fit tests. The other is a Cal/OSHA response to a federal regulatory …
The Cal/OSH Standards Board announces that it is forming an advisory subcommittee to begin work on the first step in its reorganization of Title 8 – creation of the Agriculture Safety Orders (ASO). Agriculture is one of California’s biggest and most important, not to mention dangerous, industries, yet the safety and health regulations that its …
When Fed-OSHA decided to forego a standard protecting health care workers from tuberculosis, California was required to follow suit. It did so earlier this year, but that wasn’t the end of the story. Even before the figurative ink was dry on the regulation placing health care under the general industry standard for respiratory protection, organizations …
On Oct. 25, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) convened the first symposium on its new “Steps to a Healthier U.S. Workforce” initiative. President Bush issued an executive order creating the initiative, citing concerns about lack of physical activity and poor diet among Americans and the failure of current practices to motivate …