OAKLAND — The City of Riverside has announced a job opening for a safety and training analyst. The position will report to the city safety officer and will have primary responsibility for the public works department. The analyst, among other duties, will assist in developing and administering effective safety standards, review accident reports and inspect …
OAKLAND — To increase protection for roadway workers, the Federal Highway Administration (FHA) has made revisions to the 2003 Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways (MUTCD). The manual has always focused on the use of traffic control devices to increase visibility for drivers, as well as the use of traffic cones, …
A new program that aims to standardize occupational safety and health curricula and train workers to become safety specialists is paying off for a family-owned company in East Los Angeles. On July 29, six Spanish-speaking “worker leaders” from Felbro, Inc., which manufactures metal display racks, earned certificates from the Worker Occupational Safety and Health Training …
OAKLAND — The titles on our two July 30 charts providing the complete 2003 inspection and citation statistics for the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (p. 8259) inadvertently were transposed from earlier-published charts. They should have read, respectively: “DOSH Inspection Statistics, January-December 2003” and “DOSH On-Site Inspections and Violations Cited, Major Industrial Groups, January-December …
In our July 2 edition (p. 8235), we reported about inspections of the new Eastern Span project of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. In June, several welders who had been laid off from the project alleged that they had been exposed to dangerous levels of manganese and other welding fumes while working within the caissons …
A 29-year-old tree trimmer in Palm Springs died July 20 after his fall protection failed as he was descending a 55-foot tree. California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating this and several other recent fatalities. The worker, whose identity was not available at press time, was employed by Oliver Services. According to the …
Our July 23 story about Cal/OSH Appeals Board Decisions After Reconsideration (p. 8252) contained some misleading statistics. The number of individual DARs was not 438, as stated, but 271. The 438 number was a count of the topic headers in our informal index. A case often addresses more than one topic. In our July 16 …
Beginning Aug. 1, California employers (unless they have been given a grace period) will be required to use the new Division of Workers’ Compensation claims form (DWC 1). Virtually all working Californians are considered employees for purposes of workers’ compensation. There are a few exemptions, including the self-employed and unpaid volunteers. Maritime workers and federal …