By a majority vote following public hearings, the following revisions to Title 8 safety orders have been adopted by the Cal/OSH Standards Board. They have been approved by the Office of Administrative Law and are now in the California Code of Regulations. ELECTRICAL WORKER APPAREL AND USE OF A GROUND-BASED OBSERVER WHEN PERFORMING RUBBER GLOVING …
SAN FRANCISCO – Instead of getting close to a year to adopt and learn the new federal rules for occupational safety and health recordkeeping, California will have only a month or two, at best. The Department of Industrial Relations is moving as fast as it can to get a standard in place and expects to …
The Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) has issued another set of revisions to its permanent amusement ride regulations, initiating a fourth 15-day comment period, which ends Sept. 20. Most of the new changes are minor, but DOSH has also deleted the controversial definition of the term “medical service other than ordinary first aid.” …
SAN FRANCISCO – A contractor that has been performing paint-removal operations on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has been cited for more than 30 alleged violations of Title 8 after Cal/OSHA investigators found workers exposed to lead that in some cases was considered immediately dangerous to life and health (IDLH). Of the 14 citations issued …
Two major associations representing public agency safety and health personnel are planning conferences for this October. The Public Agency Safety Management Association (PASMA) will hold its 28th annual conference Oct. 1-5 at the Handlery Hotel in San Diego. The conference will cover a range of topics, including workplace violence, conflict resolution, disaster recovery, telecommuting, personal …
The Cal/OSH Appeals Board has named Robert Villalovos as assistant chief counsel. He replaces Robert Murray, who has taken a position at California’s Agricultural Labor Relations Board. Villalovos was most recently the lead Northern California trial attorney for public works for the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement. The state’s Commission on Health and Safety and …
Like this one in Mill Valley, flags throughout the United States were at half mast Tuesday in the wake of terrorist attacks that killed or injured thousands of people on the East Coast. State and local government offices in California were shut down Tuesday as a precaution, but offices were open again Wednesday. The Cal-OSHA …
SACRAMENTO – Democratic lawmakers refused to back down in the face of a potential veto and passed a $3.6 billion benefits increase bill without compromising with Republicans or Gov. Gray Davis. Davis had proposed a less costly plan that relied on the expansion of managed care to control ever-rising workers’ comp costs, but the authors …