Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health has released draft language for its outdoor and indoor heat illness regulations aimed at harmonizing the regulations with each other. It’s unclear how the new changes relate to the enabling legislation, 2022’s AB 2243, but one thing is clear: The draft language would remove exemptions in the outdoor …
As Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health prepares to promulgate a regulatory ban on the use of engineered stone in the state’s countertop industry, many questions arise. How long would it take for fabricators to complete existing orders and use remaining materials? Is there enough supply of the touted alternative stone products? How would …
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 …
Standards Board chair Joseph Alioto, Jr., didn’t have much appetite for a recommendation from the Division of Occupational Safety and Health to send a petition by the California Industrial Hygiene Council to an advisory committee about the issue of who is competent to oversee air monitoring at workplaces for airborne contaminants. Between the Board and …
Do employees who work in aerial lifts and elevated work platforms face an unaddressed danger from fires and other emergencies while working aloft? An out-of-state petitioner with something to sell is telling the Cal/OSHA Standards Board that he believes so. He wants the rulemaking body to require emergency procedures for such work, as well as …
The Cal/OSHA Standards Board will again have its full complement of seven members. The Governor announced the appointment of Cassie Hilaski as a management representative and Joshua Lepper as a labor member. They replaced Kathleen Crawford and Dave Thomas, respectively, who announced their retirement from the Board several months ago. Reappointed were Chair Joseph Alioto, …
A July 31st stakeholder meeting is scheduled to discuss its upcoming emergency standard to ban the fabrication and installation of products containing engineered stone. Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health is fixing to act in short order after considering stakeholder comment from the meeting. In June, the Standards Board voted to authorize an Emergency …