SACRAMENTO – While the Cal/OSH Standards Board sent the Excessive Loads proposal, which was slated for a Nov. 21 vote, back to staff for further revisions, it adopted three other safety order revisions on its business agenda. They include a new permissible exposure limit for N-Methylpyrrolidone, revisions to the standards on cranes and derricks in …
The Hazard Evaluation System and Information Service (HESIS) has published a fact sheet on the causes, control and prevention of a disease with the tongue-twisting name of Coccidioidomycosis, but is commonly known as Valley Fever. California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health recently cited six employers on a Central Coast solar project after a number of …
Ten years after California’s Hazard Evaluation System and Information Service (HESIS) issued an alert warning about the dangers of the chemical 1-Bromopropane (1-BP), Fed-OSHA and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health have issued a joint hazard alert of their own. The use of 1-BP use has increased in workplaces in the past 20 …
The public comment period has started on a proposal to set a permissible exposure limit – for the first time – on a common solvent that is an irritant, and could pose a reproductive hazard to humans. Comments will end on the new PEL and another proposal on cranes and derricks in underground construction with …
A state Assemblyman has introduced legislation that would ease reporting requirements for employers in cases where workers suffer fatalities or serious injuries subsequent to the original incident. But soon after AB 326 was introduced, a Cal/OSHA official pointed out a flaw in the bill that likely will require amendment. And another provision of the legislation could …
OAKLAND – Even though the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) accuses Fed-OSHA of getting it wrong when it criticized Cal/OSHA over its handling of safety and health complaints in its recent Enhanced Federal Annual Monitoring and Evaluation Report (EFAME), it admits that more can be done to improve the timeliness of opening inspections. …