More than 1-1/2 years of teleconference-only meetings by the Cal/OSHA Standards Board are coming to an end next month. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the board will hold its first in-person monthly meeting since February 2020. The meeting will also be available for remote viewing. The pandemic forced the board to start using video conferencing in …
There are 19 new workplace fatalities under investigation, 15 of them from COVID. In the same period, there were two homicides in Oakland and two in the San Joaquin Valley. The non-COVID fatalities include two falls and two as-yet-undetermined deaths. The falls include: An employee of King Cobra Construction fell at a Pasadena construction site …
There are 16 new California workplace fatalities under investigation, include 10 from COVID. By comparison in the same period, there was one homicide each in Los Angeles and Sacramento, both gun-related The non-COVID fatalities include: An incident in Yuba City in which an employee of Thiara Orchards was run over by a pickup truck in …
There are 17 new workplace fatalities under investigation, all of them from COVID. By comparison, during the same period there were seven homicides in the same geographic areas. They include two fatal shootings each in Oakland, Sacramento and Los Angeles, and a bow-and-arrow killing in San Diego. The COVID deaths include employees of: Construction Lussier …
The Cal/OSHA Standards Board has some big decisions to make on its controversial Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) COVID regulation. It will have to make them sooner rather than later. The decisions are between revising the standard (General Industry Safety Orders §3205), repeal it, or let the current version stand and eventually move to make it …
A study conducted by the Mayo Clinic and analytics firm nference compared two vaccines – Moderna and Pfizer – and found Moderna to be more effective against breakthrough infections from all known variants. The study suggests that both messenger RNA vaccines show signs of lessening effectiveness against COVID, including the Delta variant, but further research …
A landmark high-rise on a hill at the California State University-East Bay campus and visible from the East Bay flatlands was demolished eight years ago. Now a new landmark at the campus is being built. And along with it, the general contractor, Rudolph and Sletten, is embracing a landmark of its own – its eighth …
In the two-week period between July 27th and August 10th, California saw almost two dozen workplace fatalities. Ten of them were from complications related to COVID. Another two were from falls and seven were from undetermined causes. The non-COVID incidents include: An incident in Arcadia, where an employee of American Fumigation fell from a roof …