The Injury and Illness Prevention Program (IIPP) standards, both for general industry and construction, continue to be the most cited Title 8 safety orders, according to information provided for COR by the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) Program Office. The latest statistics cover calendar year 2002. There weren’t many changes among the top …
The Bakersfield chapter of the American Society of Safety Engineers will hold its 5th Annual Safety, HR & Workers’ Comp Symposium and Exposition March 10 at the Holiday Inn Select in the Central Valley city. The symposium will feature a day of breakout sessions on the following topics: – Valley fever – Crisis management – …
A safety manager for Bovis Lend Lease was killed Feb. 25 in San Francisco after he fell 50 feet from scaffolding at a job site, according to the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). The employee, identified as Ray O’Neal by DIR spokesperson Dean Fryer, had a “full body harness on when he fell,” Fryer said. …
At its Feb. 19 meeting, the Cal/OSH Standards Board granted the following variances to Title 8 safety orders: Dalt Hotel, San Francisco: Permanent variance from Elevator Safety Orders (ESO) 3087.4(b) and 3087.6(a) and (b) regarding the installation of a vertical reciprocating conveyor (VRC). The hotel wants to install a VRC as a sidewalk elevator at …
Two major Cal/OSHA advisory committees scheduled for this week were postponed, their chairs reported. One is a committee discussing changes to the General Industry Safety Orders (GISO) on hearing conservation. The other is a committee attempting to agree on language that would ban the practice of hand weeding in agriculture. The hearing conservation committee was …
OAKLAND — Responding to a report by the state Department of Health Services (DHS) questioning a proposed regulation to set a standard fall protection trigger height of 15 feet for residential construction, industry representatives urged the Cal/OSH Standards Board not to undo more than two years of work. The addition of Construction Safety Orders 1716.2 …
OAKLAND — Art Murray, the Cal/OSH Standards Board’s occupational safety representative, told the board at its Feb. 19 meeting that he’s “frustrated” about the lack of progress, one way or another, on a petition to revise the state’s ergonomics regulation, and called on the board to revive the advisory committee process. “I’m frustrated that we …
California’s occupational safety and health community has been stunned to learn of the murders of two highly regarded Southern California industrial hygienists who had recently moved to Sedona, Ariz. Larry Birkner and Ruth McIntyre-Birkner were discovered dead in their home in this northern Arizona town by a concerned employee. Police subsequently arrested three men who …