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Proximity Alerts for Mobile Equipment?

Transportation incidents are one of the leading causes of workplace fatalities in California. Now, the chief operating officer of a San Marcos company that manufactures cables, harnesses, and electronic assemblies for a range of industries says it’s time to require high-tech solutions to prevent machine-versus-pedestrian encounters. Val Pontes of AVR Global Technologies petitioned the Cal/OSHA … Read More »

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How Griffith Rediscovered its Safety Mojo

Brea’s Griffith Co. has been a construction safety standout for many years. It has won or been a finalist for the Associated General Contractors of California’s Construction Safety Excellence Awards many times, including recognition for a high-hazard project in 2024. It also pioneered an electronic safety tracking platform, “Safety Mojo,” which has become widely used … Read More »

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Health, Safety and VPP in Hanford

The latest company to be certified and awarded status in Cal/OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) is a manufacturer of sulfur-based agricultural chemicals in northern Kings County, west of Visalia. Tessenderlo Kerley Hanford is a sprawling site with million-gallon tanks, a complex system of process piping, terminals to deliver product to trucks, and a small but … Read More »

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Gates Proposal Rolling Along

The Cal/OSHA Standards Board staff and stakeholders adopted field modifications to the Board’s draft language on gate safety. As a result, the impending revisions to General Industry Safety Orders §3324 will separate requirements for horizontal sliding gates from those for swinging gates, and a key definition has been revised to insulate innocent employers from incidents … Read More »

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New Golden Gate Employers – July 2026

Seventeen employers have received recognition from Cal/OSHA Consultation for their success in crafting effective Injury and Illness Prevention Programs. The new Golden Gate Partnership Program honorees include: Advanced Powder Coating & Sandblasting, a Paso Robles metal finishing company. It has a 143 experience modification rating (EMR) and workers’ comp coverage from Service American Indemnity; California … Read More »

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Some ICE Detainees are ‘Employees’

The GEO Group is a private company doing business in California as Golden State Annex and owns some 95 prisons and mental health facilities worldwide. In California, it is contracted to house Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency detainees, mostly illegal aliens. A settlement between the Cal/OSHA Appeals Board and GEO affirms a decision after reconsideration … Read More »

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