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Nationally, Lost Worktime Injury & Illness Cases Continue to Decline

Private industry reported 1.7 million injuries and illnesses that required recuperation away from work beyond the day of the incident nationwide during 1999, a slight decrease from the previous year, according to statistics released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The decrease continues a trend that started in the early 1990s. Lost worktime cases … Read More »

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Safety is the Pilot at Garrett Aviation

LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT – LAX’s airport-within-an-airport is one of the newest members of California’s Voluntary Protection Program. Garrett Aviation, a subsidiary of General Electric (GE), became a Star site earlier this year, making it the fourth GE site to be enrolled in Cal/VPP, with Garrett’s sister site in Van Nuys hopeful of becoming the … Read More »

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Crane Proposal Still Not Finalized – Subcommittee to Meet April 27

Back in December, a subcommittee crafting crane operator qualification and certification requirements was believed to have reached a consensus on proposed changes to General Industry Safety Order 5006. After months of hammering out language acceptable to management and labor, the proposal was thought to be basically ready to send to the full committee, then to … Read More »

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Overhead Elevator Room Clearance at Senior Center

The Cal/OSH Standards Board granted the following variance at its March 15 meeting in San Diego: Presentation Senior Community, San Francisco: Permanent variance from Elevator Safety Orders 3120.1 regarding overhead clearance for an elevator machine room at the facility, run by Mercy Charities Housing of California. The organization has installed two new elevators at the … Read More »

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Now in Title 8 (68)

By a majority vote following a public hearing, the Cal/OSH Standards Board has adopted the following revisions to Title 8 safety orders. They have been approved by the Office of Administrative Law and are now in the California Code of Regulations. MARINE TERMINALS: Revisions to General Industry Safety Orders 3465(a), 3472 and 3475 were heard … Read More »

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The 8 Debate Set to Begin

The process of making California’s massive set of occupational safety and health regulations more user friendly begins later this spring with the first meeting of a Title 8 advisory committee. Committee chairman Hans Boersma, who was recently hired by the Cal/OSH Standards Board to oversee the reform effort, said the committee will meet in late … Read More »

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Standards Board Responds to Labor Federation’s Ergonomics Petition

Standards Board Responds to Labor Federation’s Ergonomics Petition While the Cal/OSH Standards Board no longer has a legal obligation under the state Labor Code to adopt provisions of the now-invalid federal ergonomics standard, the demise of the regulation will have no effect on a petition by the California Labor Federation (CLF) regarding ergonomics. That petition … Read More »

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Davis Appoints Former Standards Board Chairman to Cal/OSH Appeals Board

Filling a vacancy left by the recent departure of William Duplissea, Gov. Gray Davis has appointed Gerald P. O’Hara as a member of the Cal/OSH Appeals Board. O’Hara, 64, has been the director of the California Teamsters Public Affairs Council since 1975. He was also a founding member of the Cal/OSH Standards Board, and served … Read More »

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