Quote of the day
“Should we use 1970s regulations for modern airflight?”
Michael Miiller of the California Association Winegrape Growers on the continuing debate on how – or whether – to update Cal/OSHA’s regulations on self-propelled agricultural equipment.
Get the full story in this week’s Cal-OSHA Reporter.
Little Consensus on Autonomous Committee
A Cal/OSHA Standards Board committee is looking to revise an almost 50-year-old standard on self-propelled AG equipment in the era of autonomous vehicles and artificial intelligence. But the consensus so far is bereft of substance. Read about it here…
Real-World Data from Experimental Variance?
A South San Francisco startup retrofits farm and landscaping equipment with automation designed to automate this equipment – and make it safer. Now, it is seeking Cal/OSHA approval for an experimental variance to demonstrate its effectiveness.
The Cal/OSHA Standards Board processes several hundred variance requests per year, most of them related to elevators. Until the agency can reform the underlying rules that make these variances necessary, it wants to streamline the process. Here’s how, and how you can weigh in on the proposal.
Here are the latest fatal workplace incidents from around California.