Excellence in Safety, CEA-Style

The Construction Employers’ Association has celebrated its 22nd annual Excellence in Safety Awards by honoring 56 member companies for their safety performance in 2023. The awards are the second part of the association’s annual awards, following its President’s Award recipients in January. Excellence in Safety Awards are given to companies meeting three of the following … Read More »

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AGC’s Safety Professional of the Year

Associated General Contractors of California has named Mario Noriega, an apprentice carpenter turned safety manager at ISEC, Inc., its Safety Professional of the Year. The association announced the award at its annual meeting in January. As announced in October, ISEC was named a first-place winner of the Construction Safety Excellence Awards in the specialty contractor … Read More »

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Walking and Working Surfaces Committee

The sixth meeting of an advisory committee studying Title 8 revisions on so-called “walking/working surfaces” will assemble on March 5th and 6th in Oakland. The committee has been in discussion since October 2022 to implement Fed-OSHA-mandated changes regarding fall prevention. Those changes are detailed in an 84-page draft that covers everything from guardrail design to … Read More »

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Workplace Fatality Update

There are four California workplace fatalities, three of them from struck-by incidents. In Indio, a technician for Park House Tires was servicing a vehicle on the side of a freeway. A vehicle collision on the freeway caused a semi to veer onto the shoulder, killing the technician. In Downey, an employee of EN Engineering was … Read More »

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Plumbers in Trench Collapse Had No Trench Permits

Cal/OSHA is seeking more than $500,000 in penalties from two employers following an August 2024 excavation collapse that buried and seriously injured a construction worker. Smelly Mel’s Plumbing and Sewer Rat Plumbing, both based in South San Francisco, face $264,820 each after the August 1st incident at a San Mateo residence on the San Francisco … Read More »

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Employers Against Cal/OSHA WPV Trauma Counseling Mandate

One of the more controversial aspects of Cal/OSHA’s proposed general industry workplace violence standard is a proposal to require employers to provide post-incident trauma counseling. Subscribers in attendance pointed out that Cal-OSHA Reporter’s coverage of the advisory committee debate, while addressing the main aspects of the standard, neglected to cover the back-and-forth about the trauma … Read More »

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