ANDERSON – The first thing providing a clue that Wheelabrator Shasta Energy Co. knows a thing or two about safety is an eye-catching operation that happens hundreds of time each week at the power plant. Big rigs with semi trailers will wheel into the facility, north of Red Bluff and south of Redding, get chained …
Cal/OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Program plans an Oct. 2-3 symposium on safety excellence in San Francisco. The event is being held in memory of Craig Marshall, a VPP consultant who died suddenly in 2006. The “Guide to Safety Excellence” symposium features representatives of Cal/VPP sites, sharing their practical experiences in the Star journey and implementing key …
Cal-OSHA Reporter’s Oct. 1 edition outlined the major findings of Fed-OSHA’s 2010 Enhanced Federal Annual Monitoring and Evaluation (EFAME) report (see p. 9855). But the nearly 100-page report contained findings and recommendations on many other elements of the Cal/OSHA program, from the Standards Board to Consultation, as we outline here. Lapse time between inspections and …
The Valero Benicia oil refinery earned its Cal/VPP Star exactly two years ago. About a year later, one of its contractors, Richlynn Contracting, earned its own star. Now another contractor is well into the VPP approval process, another is expected to formally apply after the first of the year and several more are expected to …
RICHMOND – Cal/VPP’s 70th Star site is a small hazardous-waste way station with six employees. Its 66th site is a huge manufacturing plant with hundreds of workers and dozens of processes and machines that can cause injury. What both share is safety excellence, as evidenced by their acceptance into the prestigious Cal/OSHA recognition and exemption …
Cal/OSHA, colleagues, family and friends are mourning the death of Craig Marshall, a key member of the California Voluntary Protection Program team and a longtime agency employee. Marshall died Sept. 3 of an apparent heart attack. He was 60. Police were called to Marshall’s Southern California apartment after his fiancé failed in several attempts to …