The California Workers’ Compensation Institute (CWCI) will conduct half-day seminars in April in San Francisco and Long Beach on medical privacy issues and “safe, practical approaches to obtaining the records necessary” to administer workers’ comp claims. The seminars will cover the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and AB 435, the California law that …
California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation announces that the mileage rate that workers’ comp claims administrators must pay injured workers for travel related to medical treatment or evaluation has been increased from 31 cents to 34 cents, effective Oct. 1, 2001. The increase also applies to injured workers who have applied for vocational rehabilitation.
What formerly was known as the University of California Agricultural Health & Safety Center at Davis has received renewed funding of $3.8 million over five years from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). The center recently changed its name to the Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety “to better describe its …
(a) Scope and Application This section is not intended to exclude the application of other sections of Title 8, including, but not necessarily limited to, sections 1230(a), 1512, 1524, 3203, 3363, 3400, 3439, 3457, 6251, 6512, 6969, 6975, 8420 and 8602(e). (b) Definitions “Acclimatization” means a temporary protective adjustment by the body’s systems to heat …
OAKLAND — The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau has directed its staff to find data that could eventually support a terrorist or catastrophic-loss loading to rates, according to Workers’ Comp Executive, our sister publication. The National Council on Compensation Insurance already has recommended in about 20 states that existing workers’ comp rates be loaded with …
OAKLAND — AB 567, which would codify the ban on the use of short-handled tools in agricultural operations, has been referred to the state Senate Labor and Industrial Relations committee. No hearing date has been set yet. Three other proposed measures that were left over from 2001 died after they failed to make it out …
SEASIDE — The Cal/OSH Standards Board will hold a public hearing on two new proposed revisions to Title 8 safety orders March 21, including one that is intended to clarify requirements for posting signage related to live load capacity in structures. The other proposal would establish requirements for seat belt use in farm labor vehicles. …
SEASIDE — The Division of Occupational Safety and Health has released the 2001-02 list of the highest-hazard industries in California. The list is compiled based on lost workday incidence (LWDI) rates that are 200 percent or more above the industry average for the preceding year. In 2000, the LWDI for private industry was 3.2 per …