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 …
The Cal/OSH Standards Board will convene an advisory committee in early October to study draft language that would recognize a warning system for deck openings on high-rise projects. It is …
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 …
A Cal/OSHA advisory committee authorized by the Standards Board will consider establishing formal rules for an industry-developed warning system used to protect steel erection construction workers from falling through deck …
Organizations representing ironworkers and steel erection employers are seeking changes to Title 8 to protect employees from falls through metal decking on highrise projects. In particular, they want Cal/OSHA to …
A proposal for what is believed to be a first-in-the-nation standard covering reinforcing steel concrete construction and post-tensioning operations is before the Cal/OSHA Standards Board. But the Construction Employers Association …
SACRAMENTO — Substitution of a single word in a safety order that defines when an industrial truck is considered a crane — and all the requirements that go with it …