Gates Safety Still a Work in Progress
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Structural Steel Revisions Raised
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Elevator Reforms Get a Lift
A decade-plus effort to update the Elevator Safety Orders, both to reduce the monthly trove of variance requests and to ensure safety for mechanics, inspectors, and other workers on new-age conveyances, is a huge step closer to adoption. The Cal/OSHA Standards Board’s public hearing on the proposal revealed no obstacles, and adoption could very likely …
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Revisions to CPH Proposal
Comments from the construction personnel hoist industry have convinced the Cal/OSHA Standards Board to remove a provision in a recently published rulemaking action that would have allowed vehicles in lieu of CPHs in parking garage projects. That revision, along with others, is in a 15-day notice of proposed modifications. Comments on the action are due …
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Pill-Crushing Debate to Committee
The Cal/OSHA Standards Board has authorized an advisory committee to determine whether healthcare workers who split or crush medications need better protections – and, if so, what kind. That is in response to a petition from Barbara Sattler, a veteran nurse and a professor emeritus from the University of San Francisco. She represents California Nurses …
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Back to School for Petitioner
The Cal/OSHA Standards Board didn’t give a passing grade to a biochemistry student who petitioned for respiratory protection signage at construction sites, but it did invite him to narrow down his thesis and resubmit. Shourish Mukherjee, a third-year biochemistry major at the University of California, Riverside, petitioned the Board to revise Title 8, General Industry …
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New Walking/Working Surfaces Draft
The long-running effort to adopt federal changes on so-called walking/working surfaces has new draft language. The Cal/OSHA Standards Board is seeking stakeholder comments on the revisions by mid-June. In 2016, Fed-OSHA adopted changes intended to prevent falls from common working surfaces. The Board has held several advisory committees over the years. It is still unclear …
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Cal/OSHA’s Tentative Steps on Engineered Stone Ban
Those hoping the Cal/OSHA Standards Board would act urgently on rulemaking to ban the fabrication and installation of engineered stone in the Golden State were poised to be disappointed by the Board’s decision on the petition, announced on May 15. It was voted on yesterday in Los Angeles. But instead of what critics described as …
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