The following revisions to Title 8 safety orders have been adopted and are now in the California Code of Regulations: PERSONAL FALL PROTECTION FOR WINDOW CLEANING OPERATIONS AND BUILDING MAINTENTANCE: Nonsubstantive amendments to General Industry Safety Order 3299 became effective June 22, 2000. This action provides more legible illustrations of typical platform stabilization systems. No …
Fed-OSHA has changed its Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) to expand the number of eligible worksites and raise the level of achievement required for participation. The changes make the VPP criteria conform with the agency’s voluntary Safety and Health Program Management Guidelines, which “provide effective criteria for managing safety and health programs.” The revision includes an …
The caption accompanying our article “Maritime Organizations, Fed-OSHA, Ink Industrial Truck Settlement,” July 21, p. 7423, was incomplete. It read: “The marine terminals settlement with Fed-OSHA would exempt operators from having to be trained on industrial trucks that are similar in operating characteristics and control placement.” Actually, the agreement stipulates that operators who have been …
LA MESA – By the first week in August, the Otay Water District will likely have achieved a milestone that its safety director, Dave Burpeau, says has not, to his knowledge, been reached by any other large water district in the state – it will have gone a year without a lost-time injury. It will …
Below are the final Cal/OSHA Citations Stats for 1999:
A federal judge has “dismissed with prejudice” a case brought against Fed-OSHA by Shell Oil Co. for allowing California to enforce changes to its hazard com-munication standard before formal approval had been given. If Shell had prevailed, it could have made it tougher for state-plan states to adopt safety regulations that were more stringent than …
Cal/OSHA’s Asbestos Trainer Approval Unit (ATAU) is forming an advisory committee to help guide the program, Cal/OSHA Chief John Howard announced. Rick Axe, the unit’s manager, is soliciting members for the committee. ATAU approves trainers as required by the national Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA). Any training provider who offers asbestos training in California …
LOS ANGELES – Journalists, both print and broadcast, are supposed to report the news, not make it. But the May 22 electrocution of a Los Angeles television reporter and a news truck crew member was in the Southern California headlines. It is just the latest example of what broadcast unions say is a need for …