DEPARTMENT OF WATER AND POWER
Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated October 3, 1986, Docket No. 86-R4D2-563 (Los Angeles, CA). Gerald Winerman, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Ned Flusty, Assistant City Attorney. For DOSH: John M. Ford, Associate CSE.
An alleged general violation of 3706(b) (truck warning device) was vacated.
Warning Devices, Vehicle Backup, If Audible Device Meets Requirement Division Cannot Require "Safer" Procedure.
Section 3706(b) requires compliance with 1592(b) when vehicles operate "where their backward movement would constitute a hazard to employees working in the area on foot and where the operator's vision is
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