Cal/OSHA and employers have reached settlements in two noteworthy cases. One was the 2012 death of a lumber mill worker. The other was a case that stemmed from a Cal/OSHA …
The latest California workplace fatalities include two falls, an excavator incident, a death by burns, a crushing incident, a and possible natural causes incident. The incidents happened in late September …
SACRAMENTO – The Cal/OSH Standards Board approved new rules that will allow agricultural employers to transport irrigation workers to remote fields through the use of carriers attached to tractors. The …
WALNUT CREEK – Agricultural employers cheered the latest step in gaining formal Cal/OSHA recognition for tractor-mounted personnel transport carriers (PTCs) for irrigation workers. But at the same time, they lamented …
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 …
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 …
The Standards Board’s hearing on proposed changes to General Industry Safety Orders §3395 lasted more than five hours and featured dozens of stakeholders, for, against and in between on the …
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 …