Once the Cal/OSHA Standards Board votes on its proposed emergency regulation to ban the fabrication of engineered stone, such activities would be prohibited two months after the effective date established by the state Office of Administrative Law. That’s the upshot of draft language recently released by the Division of Occupational Safety and Health. DOSH is …
The Cal/OSHA Standards Board is inviting stakeholders to attend “roundtable discussions” on how to improve its operations. The meetings are scheduled for October 6th in Sacramento and October 20th in Los Angeles. Executive Officer Millicent Robinette explains the rationale: “To fulfill our strategic plan of improving transparency, efficiency and accountability,” the Board is soliciting feedback …
The Cal/OSHA Standards Board has unanimously rejected proposed regulatory revisions to the Process Safety Management standard for refineries, General Industry Safety Orders §5189.1. The proposal would have revised the standard’s …
Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health will discuss proposed revisions to its wildfire smoke requirements at a Zoom-only meeting on September 22nd. The revisions are mandated by 2022’s AB 2243. The main change would reduce the air-quality index threshold for mandatory use of respirators. But the change would not require a written respiratory protection …
The more than 20-year quest to update Cal/OSHA’s requirements for employers’ first-aid kits raised more than the question of how long it took to modify, figure out, and adopt what should have been a relatively simple set of requirements. It also spotlights the issue of keeping Cal/OSHA up to date on consensus standards. Helen Cleary, …
Cal/OSHA is moving toward including renewable fuels facilities in its Process Safety Management regulation for refineries. It has scheduled a video conference on September 23rd to discuss its latest draft revisions. The revisions are at the request of the United Steel Workers union following a horrific 2023 incident at a Contra Costa County renewable fuels …
The Cal/OSHA Appeals Board is proposing revisions to its rules on various stages of the appeal process to make them “more transparent and understandable and increase the efficiency of its proceedings,” it says. The Board will hold a public hearing on the proposal on October 7th in person at its Sacramento headquarters and by videoconference. …