It seems like only yesterday that we were writing about the top stories of 2023. But that was one fast-moving year ago, and now it’s time to look back at 2024, which flew by and took us with it. It was a consequential year for workplace safety in California, with echoes into the new year. …
The Cal/OSHA Standards Board has granted rehearing to the Tutor/Perini / O&G Joint Venture regarding a variance to Title 8 safety orders the Board denied in July on the use of construction personnel hoists (CPH) in tunnels. The joint venture is installing four temporary CPHs at shaft locations for future Los Angeles and Beverly Hills …
The Cal/OSHA Standards Board has sworn in its new occupational safety representative, Derek Urwin, Ph.D., a firefighter and researcher. He replaces Laura Stock, who was termed out and turned out by the governor’s office after she made critical comments about the administration regarding the indoor heat illness proposal. Irwin, who recently earned his Ph.D. in …
Autonomous tractors. Precision sprayers that resemble a Cyber Truck – or is it the other way around? Weeders that independently clear a vineyard of unwanted vegetation and laser-guided “zappers” that target weeds and leave production plants alone. Retrofits that can be added to existing farm equipment to aid seeding. Machines that water and cultivate crops. …