It was the second fatal incident in less than a year at a huge pipeline project in San Luis Obispo County, and it involved the same contractor. But other than that, few details are available at press time on a recent fatality in Camp Roberts on the Nacimiento Water Project. Since the incident happened on …
SACRAMENTO — The Cal/OSH Standards Board unanimously adopted a safety order revision Aug. 20 that eliminates unintended restrictions on a grounding exception for vehicle-mounted and portable generators. The board also authorized an advisory committee to study a petition on elevator safety. The generator revision is to Low Voltage Electrical Safety Orders §2395.6 and stems from …
Cal/OSHA wants to ensure that California construction workers are on solid footing when they step onto scaffold planking, so it is convening an advisory committee that meets Sept. 2 and 3 in Sacramento to discuss design and construction criteria for “engineered” scaffold planks and decks. Potential revisions to Construction Safety Orders §§ 1504, 1637(f) …
The Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) announces that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed Chris Lee, a former Fed-OSHA official, as Deputy Chief for Cal/OSHA Enforcement, replacing Vicky Heza, who has served in the post throughout this decade. DOSH Chief Len Welsh tells Cal-OSHA Reporter that Heza will remain in a leadership position in DOSH …
The regulated public will get a chance to comment on proposed Cal/OSH Standards Board revisions to the decompression tables for pressurized worksites, and a revision to the Low Voltage Electrical Safety Orders on generators July 16 in Los Angeles. The pressurized worksite proposal would revise General Industry Safety Orders §§ 6070, 6074, 6075, 6080, 6087, …
SAN DIEGO — If — or when — a deadly new influenza strain strikes California, protections from aerosol-transmissible diseases (ATDs) the Cal/OSH Standards Board voted to put in place May 21 would prevent the kind of incident related to the board by nurse Ingela Dahlgren before it cast its landmark vote. Dahlgren, a Camarillo nurse …
SAN DIEGO — The union representing maritime workers had some suggestions for improving rules governing a practice it actually opposes, and a one-sentence change to a previously adopted regulation generated plenty of comments at a Standards Board public hearing May 21. A third proposal that would allow the American National Standards Institute to accredit crane …
He might only be keeping the seat warm until Fed-OSHA names an official administrator, but Jordan Barab could generate plenty of heat in his new position. Barab, a senior staffer to Rep. George Miller on the House Education and Labor Committee and a former official with the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, has …