The following new additions can be found in the Resources section of COR’s website: Latest revised Title 8 safety and health regulations, including Carcinogen Report of Use Requirements; Permit-Required Confined Spaces; and Methylene Chloride. Fed-OSHA fact sheet – “Protecting Workers in Hot Environments.” To access these documents, go to www.cal-osha.com and choose Resources.
This issue of COR will be the last one until Sept. 3. We’re taking our annual summer break the last two weeks of August. We will resume our normal weekly schedule with the Sept. 3 issue. If any breaking news occurs during COR’s vacation, our e-mail subscribers can expect the customary “Flash Reports” as the …
OAKLAND — California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) has issued 33 citations to Tosco Refining Co., with proposed penalties of more than $800,000, for safety violations in a deadly February flash fire in Martinez. The Cal/OSHA action is the highest penalty amount ever issued against a single employer, Cal/OSHA Chief John Howard told …
OAKLAND — Private parties who bring enforcement actions under the occupational provisions of Proposition 65 will have to serve both the alleged violator and the state Attorney General (AG) with a 60-day notice of the action, under regulations proposed by the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). The regulations have been under development since 1997, when …
OAKLAND — With much of the nation swooning under record temperatures, Fed-OSHA is offering advice to workers who can’t seek refuge in an air-conditioned building. While California has largely been spared from killer heat this summer, many parts of the state do regularly swelter during the summer. And the warm season here lasts well into …
OAKLAND — Fed-OSHA’s Region IX has issued five citations – two of them for willful violations – against a Saipan construction company alleged to have exposed workers to substandard trenching. Following a report it received in January, Fed-OSHA conducted an inspection of Sablan Construction Co., Ltd., for hazardous conditions at the Marpi Road Expansion Project …
OAKLAND — The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) has established what it calls the Professional Safety Academy, designed to assist society members with professional development. The safety academy (PSA) “delivers the information, knowledge and skills that further the opportunities and effectiveness of safety, health and environmental professionals, practitioners and technologists in the practice of …
OAKLAND — The University of Southern California Medical School will hold its Industrial Hygiene Series Aug. 23-27 at its Los Angeles campus. The series includes four classes: Comprehensive Industrial Hygiene Certification Review, Aug. 23-27; Industrial Hygiene Instrumentation, Aug. 23-24; “So Your Ventilation System Does Not Work,” Aug. 26; and Certified Hazardous Materials Exam, 9 a.m.-noon, …