Fed-OSHA is expected to investigate an Aug. 23 incident in which a worker at the Port of Oakland drowned after being knocked off a ship by a container and having to tread water for half an hour in chilly San Francisco Bay waters. Delmont Blackney, 77, an employee of Stevedoring Services of America, “fell into …
Fed-OSHA has proposed the third-largest-ever penalties against the owner of a sugar refinery that exploded in February, killing 13 workers and injuring dozens of others. The agency cited Imperial Sugar Co. for 120 alleged violations, including 61 considered “egregious” at the plant near Savannah, Ga., and another in Gramercy, La., that was inspected after the …
The Cal/OSH Standards Board seeks to make California requirements for bakery oven inspections – there are now none – equivalent to Fed-OSHA standards. The board proposal is the lone subject of a June 19 public hearing in Oakland and now is in a 45-day comment period. The change was requested by the Division of Occupational …
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has put out a call for applications for this year’s Susan Harwood Training Grants. The Feds are making available $6.7 million in grant money to nonprofit organizations to provide training and education to employers and employees. Application deadline is May 23. This year, Fed-OSHA is funding training topic …
GLENDALE – Cal/OSH Standards Board adopted a 120-page-plus revision to the Low Voltage Electrical Safety Orders (LVESO) at its March 20 meeting. The board also adopted revisions on maintenance of haulage vehicle brakes. The LVESO update is based on a Fed-OSHA final rule from February 2007 that revises its general industry electrical installation standard, CFR …
Cal-OSHA Reporter‘s March 7 News Digest item about Fed-OSHA’s recent letters to some 14,000 employers across the country alerting them that their injury and illness rates are “considerably higher” than the national average provoked this response from reader Paul Burnett, safety program administrator for Santa Clara Valley Water District: “I think there is a very …
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited an Alabama contractor for repeat violations after the agency visited three worksites last summer and fall. Fed-OSHA cited Gilco Contracting, Inc., for seven alleged repeat violations, with penalties totaling more than $300,000 after it discovered trenching and excavation violations. The firm had been cited for similar …
Former Cal/OSH Standards Board member Elizabeth Arioto has been named to Fed-OSHA’s Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health (ACCSH). She will serve as public representative on the 15-member committee, which advises the U.S. Secretary of Labor on policy and construction standards. Arioto is safety manager for Flintco Construction and also is principal of Elizabeth …