Most variances approved by the Cal/OSHA Standards Board these days are of the elevator variety. In fact, there hasn’t been a purely safety variance in many months. Now comes the …
Two organizations that successfully petitioned the Cal/OSHA Standards Board for quick action on construction personnel hoist (CPH) staging have come back to the board for another battle on other CPH …
Cal/OSHA cited Walsh/Shea Corridor Constructions for a willful-general violation for failing to install a construction personnel hoist (CPH) in an 800-foot excavation. The employer took the matter to the Appeals …
The Cal/OSH Standards Board wouldn’t go as far as to declare an emergency situation requiring immediate rulemaking on the construction personnel hoist (CPH) issue. But it has agreed to a …
Giant construction firm Tutor-Perini, Inc., has agreed to pay $70,000 in penalties in a case Cal/OSHA brought against it after a complaint. The problem, according to Cal/OSHA, was the lack …
The safety director for an Illinois company has petitioned to change a provision in the Construction Safety Orders that calls for the bonding and grounding of helicopters and fuel trucks …
Regarding the construction personnel hoist issue outlined in Cal-OSHA Reporter’s April 3 and 10 issues, we received the following email from a construction safety manager: “My question is: Why does …