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Fed-OSHA Publishes Draft Ergonomics Rule – – Final Standard Could Mean Rewrite of California Regulation

SAN DIEGO — After more than seven years and much wrangling, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has finally published its proposed regulations covering ergonomics in the workplace. Fed-OSHA said that an average of 300,000 workers nationwide “can be spared from painful, potentially disabling, injuries” each year. The administration also claimed that correcting … Read More »

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Lie to OSHA, Go to Prison

SAN DIEGO — Lie to OSHA, Go to Prison Two company officials of LeMaster Steel Erectors, Inc., Elkhart, Ind., including the safety director, were sentenced to prison for making false statements to Fed-OSHA following the death of an employee in Mason, Ohio, in 1996. LeMaster Safety Director Michael A. Onyon and Regional Manager Jay Holloman … Read More »

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Now in Title 8 (48)

SAN DIEGO — By a majority vote following public hearings, the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board adopted revisions to the following Title 8 safety orders. They have been approved by the Office of Administrative Law and are now in the California Code of Regulations. COMPRESSED AIR SAFETY ORDERS: Amendments to Compressed Air Safety Orders … Read More »

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Board Takes Comments on Hearing Panel, Window Cleaning Proposals

SAN DIEGO — The Cal/OSH Standards Board held a public hearing on two proposals at its Nov. 18 meeting in San Diego. The first would amend Title 8, 417.1, Rules and Procedure for Interim and Permanent Variances, and Appeals from Temporary Variances. Presently, a party to a variance can request a hearing before the board … Read More »

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COEH, Agsafe, Temp up to Train Agricultural Safety Coordinators

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — The University of California’s Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH) and AgSafe are co-sponsoring a program to train farm safety coordinators. The certificate program will “prepare safety coordinators to help California farms and agricultural processing companies institute formal injury and illness prevention programs” (IIPPs), according to COEH. The National Institute … Read More »

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Dangerous Beauty – – National Parks Work With Fed-OSHA to Become Safer Workplaces

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — Two ambitious plans are crossing paths, so to speak, at this celebrated preserve. The first seeks to rebuild trails, bridges and roads devastated by floods in the winter of 1997. The second seeks to protect employees from the effects of those rebuilding efforts. Yosemite, one of the granddaddies of the National … Read More »

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New Csp Ergo Specialty

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — The Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP) is offering a specialty examination to safety professionals “who want to demonstrate their competence in ergonomics.” The ergo exam, which is offered every business day at Sylvan Technology Centers, includes such topics as physiology, analytical methods, job-related factors, human error, design and redesign issues … Read More »

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CHSWC Reports on Carve-Outs

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — California’s Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation says so-called “carve-out” programs in the construction industry have had middling results so far. Carve-outs were created in the 1993 workers’ compensation reforms and allow certain employers and employees to be “carved out” from the traditional workers’ comp system. Unions and employers … Read More »

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