The Cal/OSHA Standards Board has moved quickly to adopt a Fed-OSHA final rule created during the last days of the previous administration. The rule is simple: It requires that personal protective equipment (PPE) is of safe design and construction and properly fits each employee. It is being adopted as a âHorcherâ rule, meaning it is …
California employers have distributed millions of pieces of personal protective equipment; Cal/OSHA has monitored thousands of employees at dairies and poultry farms and conducted inspections at dozens of compliance inspections ostensibly to control the bird flu outbreak, which has hit this stateâs animal agricultural industry. Now, a controversy has developed at the Cal/OSHA Standards Board …
Cal/OSHAâs Division of Occupational Safety and Health and employers agreed to settlement terms in three fatality cases. Two of the cases stretch back almost seven years. Here are the cases and the results. Monterey Mushrooms: The case that began with the death of Jose Fierros, 62, in February 2020 has been settled for $40,980 (59%) …
The long and winding road to resolving the decades-long issue of how and when autonomous vehicles and equipment can be used in California agriculture gets a kick-start on March 26th. Thatâs when the Cal/OSHA Standards Board will convene an advisory committee to discuss autonomous tractors. Cal/OSHA says the meeting will be virtual to allow for …
Cal/OSHA considered its obligation to consider Title 8 revisions to fulfill a 2023 bill the author believes will attract women to the construction trades. That legislation by Assemblyman Rebecca Bauer-Kahan (D-Orinda) requires the Board to consider changes to Construction Safety Orders §1526 to require all construction sites to have at least one single-user toilet for …