LOS ANGELES — Dee Pearsall, an occupational rehabilitation nurse for Wausau Insurance in Los Angeles, was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the California Workers’ Compensation Institute at its recent annual meeting in San Francisco. Pearsall founded the Rehab Nurses Society in Southern California in the early 1970s and has served on various industry …
California Attorney General (AG) Bill Lockyer has authorized his staff to intervene in a federal lawsuit, Shell Oil Co. v. Dept. of Labor, which the AG believes if successful would make it increasingly more difficult for states to adopt their own tougher worker protections standards. Deputy Attorney General Ed Weil, testifying before an Assembly hearing …
RICHMOND — The recent accidents at the Tosco and Chevron refineries in Contra Costa County and the change in power in the state government are providing momentum to proposed legislative reforms to occupational safety and health laws. And it was clear from the comments and testimony at a public hearing held by the Assembly Committee …
LOS ANGELES — This city’s Metro Rail project is placing its goal of being operational by the end of May ahead of worker and public safety, transit critic John Walsh told Cal/OSHA Chief John Howard and attendees at the April 1 meeting of the Cal/OSH Advisory Committee. The committee also received reports from Howard on …
LOS ANGELES — A federal appeals court has agreed with industry groups that Fed-OSHA’s Cooperative Compliance Program (CCP) should have been enacted according to the rulemaking process and is therefore illegal. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers, American Trucking Associations and the Food Marketing Institute sued to overturn the program, objecting …
LOS ANGELES — By a majority vote following public hearings, 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. UPDATED ANSI REQUIREMENTS FOR LADDERS USED IN CONSTRUCTION AND GENERAL INDUSTRY: Amendments …
LOS ANGELES — The UCLA Labor Occupational Safety and Health (LOSH) program and the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor will hold a Workers’ Memorial Day breakfast to remember workers who have been killed on the job in the past year. The breakfast will be held on Wednesday, April 28, at 8 a.m. at the …
LOS ANGELES — State legislators looking for additional tools to deal with problem oil and chemical facilities may find one in Contra Costa County’s Industrial Safety Ordinance (ISO), the only local ordinance of its kind in the state. County Supervisor John Gioia briefed Assemblyman Jim Steinberg’s April 9 panel on the ISO, which the county …