Division of Occupational Safety and Health’s twice-postponed advisory meeting on reforming Cal/OSHA’s penalty structure will take place as scheduled May 6 at 10 a.m. But the Division announces a new meeting room at Oakland’s Elihu Harris State Building: 2nd floor, Room 6, 1515 Clay St. The meeting will address several aspects of the penalty structure, …
Legislation intended to prevent employers from “gaming” the Cal/OSHA appeals process has been introduced by Assemblymember Sandre Swanson (D-Oakland). Both the author and the supporters hope to further the goal of making the appeals process more streamlined and effective in addressing workplace safety violations. Originally a spot bill, AB 1988 recently was amended to require …
The Division of Occupational Safety and Health has decided to forgeo controversial rulemaking on fertilizer handling, opting instead to work on educating fertilizer manufacturers over their responsibilities under Cal/OSHA’s existing process safety management standard. The rulemaking proposal, aired at a Cal/OSH Standards Board public hearing last year, would have harmed California agriculture, industry representatives say. …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating the Feb. 19 death of an agricultural worker in Dixon. The employee of McCormick Farms was standing on the tracks of a bulldozer he was trying to start, when the vehicle “started and took off,” throwing the victim under its tracks, according to Department of Industrial …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) has conducted a relative handful of inspections of nail salons in the past five years, and typically workplace exposures to cosmetology chemicals have not exceeded permissible exposure limits, DOSH Chief Len Welsh told state Sen. Carole Migden, who continues to express concern for the health of salon …
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) has cited Folsom State Prison for alleged serious violations of the state’s Injury and Illness Prevention Program standard and issued a Special Order in the wake of a series of antibiotic-resistant staph infections among corrections officers. DOSH also cited the prison for failing to report the serious …
34 COR 40-6003 [¶ 21,137] FALL PROTECTION – SKYLIGHT OPENING Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, §§ 1670(a), 1730 (2007) – An employee fell through the opening of a skylight being replaced as part of a re-roofing operation; no fall protection was provided. Employer did not establish that a more specific safety order applied or that …
The governor’s office has taken the “Acting” off the title for Len Welsh at California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH). Welsh, a longtime DOSH official who was named acting chief in 2003 after the departure of Dr. John Howard, was officially appointed chief Oct. 12 by the Schwarzenegger administration. The $125,004-per-year position still …