SAN DIEGO — On a day in which a long-vacant labor seat on the Cal/OSH Standards Board finally was filled, the board completed a packed agenda, adopting five sets of revised safety orders, sending another package back to its staff for further refinements, holding a lengthy public hearing on two new regulatory proposals and introducing …
SAN DIEGO — An advisory committee deliberating a potential ban on hand weeding in agricultural operations will try to resolve an impasse on the proposal with a subcommittee June 20 in Sacramento. The subcommittee will discuss proposed revisions to General Industry Safety Orders 3456. A coalition of labor groups petitioned the Cal/OSH Standards Board to …
SAN DIEGO — * Emanuel Benitez, California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA) * Bob Falconer, Director of Government Affairs, California Association of Nurserymen * Carl Borden, Associate Counsel, California Farm Bureau Federation * Elizabeth Ecks, Counsel, California Labor Federation * Fadi Fathallah, Assistant Professor, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of California-Davis * Marta Guzman, United Farm …
SAN DIEGO — Despite chairman Jere Ingram noting that he is “burned out” on the ergonomics issue and employer representatives urging an end to the debate, the Cal/OSH Standards Board authorized continued advisory committee discussion. The topic, however, will be narrowly focused and apparently won’t involve any of the regulatory proposals that have been put …
SAN DIEGO — Concern over the cost of a proposal to revise a safety order covering laboratory ventilation hoods and whether the proposal reflects all the deliberations of an advisory committee dominated a public hearing at the May 22 Cal/OSH Standards Board meeting. The laboratory fume hood proposal is the culmination of petitions filed several …
SAN DIEGO — The Cal/OSH Standards Board rejected proposed revisions to Construction Safety Orders (CSO) 1513 and General Industry Safety Orders (GISO) 3273 after members objected to the removal of language due to cost concerns by industry. The proposal is the result of a request from the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) for …
SAN DIEGO — The Cal/OSH Standards Board staff has released a consensus draft proposal that would address fall protection for residential framing. The proposal is the result of work by an advisory committee that met late last year. Committee members received the proposal earlier this month and were to have submitted any comments by May …
The Division of Occupational Safety and Health has drafted a new set of proposed amendments to the General Industry Safety Orders (GISO) regarding the control of noise exposure that would remove exemptions to several industries from having to implement hearing conservation programs. At the same time, the revised proposal attempts to address concerns by those …