OAKLAND — Two California entities have been awarded new federal Susan Harwood Training Grants, Fed-OSHA announced. The State Building and Construction Trades Council in Sacramento has been granted $153,700 to conduct three “train the trainer” sessions on noise and hearing conservation in construction. One of the sessions will be conducted in Spanish. The council also …
OAKLAND — The Cal/OSH Standards Board has released a tentative meeting schedule for 2004. It will include some new locations and venues, and may have a revised date – the September meeting may be moved up a week to accommodate religious observances. The board intends to schedule its Los Angeles-area meetings in Burbank or Glendale …
OAKLAND — It flew below the radar of many in occupational safety and health, but a bill recently approved by the state Legislature could have a significant impact on the enforcement of Title 8. SB 796, introduced by State Sen. Joseph Dunn (D-Garden Grove), is intended to “augment the enforcement abilities” of the state Labor …
OAKLAND — The Cal/OSH Standards Board granted Title 8 variances to two utilities on widely divergent issues at its Sept. 18 meeting. SBC Telecommunications, Sacramento: Permanent variance from Telecommunications Safety Orders 8603(a) regarding the use of computerized training records at all SBC field and office operations in the state. The safety order requires that safety …
DAVIS — The workers at Monsanto’s Calgene Campus in this university town are participating in state-of-the-art research involving plant culture, but it’s another kind of culture – the safety variety – that they were feting Sept. 12. Calgene officially hoisted its Cal/Voluntary Protection Program flag, celebrating its acceptance as the latest Star site. “This site …
DAVIS — SB 534, labor’s “fail safe” against the inability of a Cal/OSHA advisory committee to come to agreement on a ban on the practice of hand weeding in agricultural fields, itself failed to make it out of the state Legislature, on a party-line vote. The legislation was defeated, 36-29, with 17 abstentions. “It was …
DAVIS — The Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) announced it will conduct weekend sweeps under its Construction Safety and Health Inspection Project (CSHIP), as part of its performance plan for 2004. DOSH said it will conduct 50 percent of its residential construction sweeps on Saturdays because it has learned that certain operations, such …
DAVIS — The American Society of Safety Engineers’ Construction Division will hold a daylong professional development conference Oct. 10 covering crane safety and rigging safety. Presenters will be Dale Daul of St. Paul Insurance, an internationally known speaker on crane safety, and Michael Gelski of Liftit Technologies, a manufacturer of rigging equipment. The PDC will …