The lead article in the COR of September 21, 1998, was about the crane collapse at San Francisco Airport. It was a spectacular incident and it left a young employee severely injured. Our story was based on information obtained from the Department of Industrial Relations’ press office and accounts in two different newspapers. Almost immediately, …
The American Society of Civil Engineers has advice for project owners. “Whether you are a corporation building a new headquarters or a city building a new sports stadium, you are responsible for assigning construction site safety responsibilities at the contract stage to a specific and qualified individual or organization,” says ASCE. This is a revision …
Last week we referred to Carole Migden’s safer needle bill, which the governor signed, as AB 1209. NOT. It is AB 1208, Ch. 999 of the Statutes of 1998. It will add new section 144.7 to the Labor Code. AB 1208 has four principal sections. The first, (a), directs the Cal-OSH Standards Board, no later …
On September 30, the last day for Governor Pete Wilson to decide which bills on his desk would become law, he signed Carole Migden’s AB 1209. The emergency measure directs the Cal-OSH Standards Board to adopt a safer needle standard by January 15, 1999. The fate of the bill was murky until almost the last …
The Office of Administrative Law has approved, and filed with the Secretary of State, the massive respiratory protection package. Essentially the same as Fed-OSHA’s, it was heard at the May 21, 1998, public meeting of the Cal-OSH Standards Board and was adopted on June 18, 1998. (See NEWS pp. 00-6934 to -6937.) Title 8 safety …
Fed-OSHA has just issued a new enforcement directive for its field personnel that it believes will also be useful for employers in terms of their complying with the new respiratory protection standard. Private employers in non-state-plan states must be in compliance by October 5, 1998, but all California employers, public and private, have until May …
The Cal-OSH Standards Board’s September 17 meeting and hearing in Los Angeles was brief, COR was told. There were no public comments either of a general nature or about sunset review of existing Title 8 safety orders dealing with electrical, elevator or passenger tramway safety. Once the public meeting (open for public comment) ended, Chairman …
Fed-OSHA and Massachusetts authorities are investigating the fatal collapse in early August of a 12-level section of scaffold-ing at an occupied condominium building in Quincy. Two young masons who had started a facade fix at the top of the building were working their way down when the return section around a line of balconies at …