Biochemistry student Sourish Mukherjee has offered a trifecta in his quest to reduce exposure to wood dust at construction sites. In his latest petition to the Cal/OSHA Standards Board, the University of California, Riverside activist student has asked the Board to lower the permissible exposure limit (PEL) for wood dust by 50%—from 2 milligrams per …
Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health and employers in several recent fatality cases have reached agreements to resolve them. Here’s how those cases concluded: Cim Group, L.P. Los Angeles: This property management company will pay $36,300 (74%) of the $49.050 proposed by DOSH after investigating a May 2022 fatality in that city. A property …
Cal/OSHA Standards Board chair Joseph Alioto has suggested that, in the wake of the near-disaster at a chemical plant in Garden Grove earlier this year, the agency needs to rethink how it approaches such incidents. “The pattern here is a formal accident followed by developing new regulations,” he said recently. “We need to be doing …
Once the Cal/OSHA Standards Board votes on its proposed emergency regulation to ban the fabrication of engineered stone, such activities would be prohibited two months after the effective date established by the state Office of Administrative Law. That’s the upshot of draft language recently released by the Division of Occupational Safety and Health. DOSH is …
The Cal/OSHA Standards Board is inviting stakeholders to attend “roundtable discussions” on how to improve its operations. The meetings are scheduled for October 6th in Sacramento and October 20th in Los Angeles. Executive Officer Millicent Robinette explains the rationale: “To fulfill our strategic plan of improving transparency, efficiency and accountability,” the Board is soliciting feedback …
The Cal/OSHA Standards Board has unanimously rejected proposed regulatory revisions to the Process Safety Management standard for refineries, General Industry Safety Orders §5189.1. The proposal would have revised the standard’s …