LOS ANGELES — The Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) has rescheduled an advisory committee meeting to discuss proposed changes to Construction Safety Orders 1527 to May 13. The proposal would require construction sites with toilets to also supply hand-washing facilities. The committee will meet at 10 a.m. in Meeting Room 1, 2nd Floor, …
LOS ANGELES — The Division of Labor Statistics and Research will hold a public hearing May 13 in San Francisco on minor changes to injury and illness recordkeeping Form 5020. The revisions are intended to protect employees’ confidentiality and include two new required questions. The revised document would fulfill the requirements for a form equivalent …
LOS ANGELES — An advisory committee that will study possible changes to the regulations governing construction activity permitting will meet April 29 in Oakland. Construction employers have raised a number of questions over the years about the enforcement of permit regulations, Title 8 341, according to DOSH Special Counsel Len Welsh. Employers have said they …
LOS ANGELES — Cal/OSHA’s “listening post” marked its 25-year anniversary at its April meeting here. The Advisory Committee was begun in 1977 to provide feedback to Cal/OSHA management and recommend changes within the program. The committee started out as 16 representatives of management and labor and has grown to twice that, including alternates, meeting monthly …
LOS ANGELES — Unlike Fed-OSHA, California does not have a general-duty clause, which the federal government says it will use to cite employers for ergonomics violations. Instead, the state has its own hard-won ergonomics standard, General Industry Safety Order 5110. Since the late 1990s, citations under the standard have risen steadily, as well as proposed …
Bob Barish, senior industrial hygienist for the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, has announced that the first meeting of an advisory committee studying a proposed requirement for hand-wash facilities at construction sites has been postponed. The committee was slated to meet April 10, but several members have scheduling conflicts. Barish said the committee would …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) has for the first time issued a citation to a professional engineer in the wake of the October 2001 collapse of a vertical shoring system in Carson that seriously injured several workers. David J. Gowers, P.E., of Salma, Ore., was cited March 28 for an alleged serious …
The American Society of Safety Engineers’ Sacramento Chapter will hold a construction professional development conference (PDC) May 21 at the DoubleTree Hotel in Sacramento. Keynote speaker will be Chuck Fletcher, president of the Associated General Contractors. The tentative schedule for the PDC includes sessions on the new steel erection standard, the Construction Safety and Health …