Associated General Contractors of California has honored two individuals and 10 employers with its 2025 Construction Safety Excellence Awards. The awards were presented at the association’s recent conference. The winner of the Safety Professional of the Year award will be announced next January at AGC’s 2026 general meeting. Here are the winners and finalists in …
Associated General Contractors of California has recognized numerous construction companies for their safety efforts in three divisions: Building, Heavy/Civil/Highway, and Specialty. Of particular note, many of these winning contractors, according to Contelligence.com, have current EMRs among the lowest in California. For firms headquartered outside the state, the EMR applies only to California. The EMRs in …
Granite Construction took the honors in this CSEA category for its project to rehabilitate runways and taxiways at Los Angeles International Airport. The $160 million project took slightly over two years to complete and was work “that could significantly endanger flights, passengers aboard flights, and personnel in the airfield environment.” Hazards included individuals driving on …
. Victor Muniz, the former Cal/OSHA deputy chief for enforcement who explained to Cal-OSHA Reporter earlier this year that crews cleaning up fire sites in the Los Angeles area were ignoring safety, is still concerned. He says harmful exposures are still taking place. Muniz was deputy chief in the late 1980s and spent the rest …
As Cal-OSHA Reporter reported in last week’s Workplace Fatality Update, a nurse at the Department of State Hospitals’ Atascadero facility near Templeton died 11 days after testing positive for “active” tuberculosis (TB) and being hospitalized. Cal-OSHA Reporter determined it was worth looking into this unusual workplace fatality to learn if it portends anything more serious. …
The Regent’s Slide at Big Sur in Monterey County has severed a famous highway and vital link along the Pacific Coast. Iconic Highway 1 has been closed for 14 months since February 1st, 2024. Work is continuing to clear the huge slide. The effort has proven difficult as the earth continues to move, putting employees …
A former Cal/OSHA enforcement deputy chief says the emergency cleanup of fire-stricken Los Angeles-area neighborhoods has ignored safety protocols and exposed crews to potentially contaminated debris, including asbestos. State officials, meanwhile, provide a different story. They say strict protocols are in place, and Cal/OSHA has made concerted efforts to raise awareness of the hazards inherent …
 The 65th current participant in Cal/OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) is a facility that tempers glass—lots of it—with hazards that could make a safety manager temper their career choice. Fortunately, Cardinal CT in Moreno Valley has engineered out its main safety threats and implemented procedures to address the ones that cannot be engineered. The …