Standards Board chair Joseph Alioto, Jr., didn’t have much appetite for a recommendation from the Division of Occupational Safety and Health to send a petition by the California Industrial Hygiene Council to an advisory committee about the issue of who is competent to oversee air monitoring at workplaces for airborne contaminants. Between the Board and …
As expected, the California Industrial Hygiene Council (CIHC) has petitioned the Cal/OSHA Standards Board to add clarifying language to the airborne contaminants standard regarding personnel competency to perform air monitoring. The organization says it is not seeking a requirement for certified industrial hygienists to perform such monitoring, rather to make clear what competency looks like, …
The California Industrial Hygiene Council (CIHC) states that it will submit a petition to the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board to clarify responsibilities for conducting workplace monitoring of airborne contaminants. It’s unclear when the organization will formally request regulatory language, but it made its intentions clear at the recent Standards Board meeting. The council …
Artificial intelligence “is not going to take your job. It’s somebody else who’s using AI that’s going to take your job,” jokes Dr. John Howard, the well-respected, longtime director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and former Cal/OSHA Chief. He used that phrase to “jar you into the future” at the recent …