A Deadline and a Vote on Night Work Proposal
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Tagged in: General Industry Safety Orders 3441
Standards Board Publishes Proposal on Transport Carriers in Agriculture
The contentious issue of the use of tractor-mounted personnel transport carriers (PTCs) to ferry farmhands to far-flung fields is traveling toward resolution. The Cal/OSH Standards Board has published its formal …
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Cal/OSHA: Non-Employees Can Intervene in Experimental Variances
For what by all memory is the first time, the Cal/OSH Standards Board has agreed that a worker who is not connected with an employer subject to an experimental variance …
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Seeds of a Night Work Standard To Propagate or Kill?
SACRAMENTO – In agricultural terms, the germination and propagation of a Cal/OSHA standard to protect workers during night operations has just begun. The new standard has yet to sprout roots …
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Cal/OSHA Seeks Light on Night Work with Advisory Committee Meeting
A Cal/OSHA advisory committee will explore how extensive regulations should be to protect agricultural workers who toil during the night. The committee meets May 6 in Sacramento. The committee will …
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Grimmway Gets TTU Variance
The Cal/OSH Standards Board has granted Bakersfield-based Grimmway Farms a permanent variance on its use of tractor-mounted transportation units (TTUs), the technique which has been widely used in farm country …
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Light of Day on Night Work Safety
MONTEREY – The California sunshine helps grow an abundance of commercial crops for the Golden State, the nation’s largest agricultural producer. But increasingly, it takes the night to help bring …
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With Some Dissent, Board Approves Committee on Tractor Trans Units
SAN DIEGO – After considerable discussion and a plea from a major farm labor organization for a “no” vote, the Cal/OSH Standards Board authorized an advisory committee to study a …
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