The City of San Diego incurred more than $40 million in direct costs from injuries and illnesses in 2021. Coupled with indirect costs, the total – some $224 million – exceeds the budgets of two city departments, the city’s independent auditor says in a recent report. San Diego is permissively self-insured, and all occupational injury …
Struck-bys are a persistent safety problem throughout the country. Approximately 200 employees are killed each year nationwide, struck either by objects or equipment, or by vehicles. Road construction is particularly vulnerable. That’s why a coalition of groups, including the Center for Construction Research and Training, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and Fed-OSHA …
Construction, as we know, is one of the most hazardous industries in the state and nation. Some contractors, however, specialize in taking on the most hazardous projects and doing them safely, and taking on these extreme challenges increases their performance in both safety and productivity. Two projects recently honored by the Associated General Contractors of …
SB 831, inspired by a shooting incident at a New Mexico film location, would codify existing movie industry guidelines and make them enforceable in California by Cal/OSHA. If approved in its present form by the California Legislature, it would require the agency to adopt appropriate regulations by the beginning of 2024. But as is so …
COSTA MESA — Although not present at the April 19 public hearing held by the Cal/OSH Standards Board on a proposal to enhance safety for microtomes, a California safety professional has a lot to say about the proposal. Preventing lacerations and even amputations when using these laboratory machines takes more than a regulation, says Farrah …
A county inspector warned a contractor conducting a trenching project at a Malibu residence last fall that the trench needed to be re-engineered, but the contractor apparently ignored that warning, leading to the death of a worker when the shoddy shoring collapsed. Now California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) has issued an alleged …
SACRAMENTO – A number of measures to improve safety and security for state hospital workers could be implemented quickly and relatively cheaply, Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) Chief Ellen Widess told a state legislative panel on Aug. 23. DOSH is compiling a list of “urgent abatement measures” for the state Department of Mental …