Changes at the Standards Board

The Cal/OSHA Standards Board is adding a new member to fill a recent vacancy. More important, Executive Officer Christina Shupe will be leaving the Board in late September. Shupe is taking a position as assistant executive officer for the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board, heading its Fresno office. Shupe cites “career opportunities” as … Read More »

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Cal/OSHA Inspection Stats

Cal/OSHA in 2022 conducted the most onsite inspections in several years, although not as many as it did before the pandemic. And it issued citations for more violations than the pandemic years, but not nearly as many in the five years before that. The statistics were recently released. They reveal that more than half of … Read More »

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Standards Board Okays Silica Emergency Temporary Standard

Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health and Standards Board has approved beginning work on an emergency temporary standard to protect engineered stone fabrication industry employees from silica exposure. Work is set to begin in the next few weeks. The ETS will be followed by permanent changes to Cal/OSHA’s current silica standard, General Industry Safety … Read More »

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Standards Board’s Burgel Departs

At its June meeting, the Cal/OSHA Standards Board said goodbye to occupational health representative Barbara Burgel. Burgel, an occupational health consultant and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, has retired from the board to pursue personal interests. Burgel served just over one term, having been appointed in 2018. Her term expired in … Read More »

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New Safety Practices Meet Old Requirements, Prompting Variance

Like several other ski resorts and zoos in the past, Homewood Mountain Resort has sought and been granted a permanent variance from an outdated Cal/OSHA regulation on passenger tramways. The action was taken at the Standards Board’s June meeting. Homewood is installing an almost-4,000-foot-long gondola system to shuttle guests from the resort’s base area to … Read More »

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Catching Up on Major Cases

Each week, Cal-OSHA Reporter provides an update on California’s workplace fatalities. The cases are documents for subscribers through the Cal/OSHA process, from citation to resolution – most often at the Appeals Board. Here is the latest on cases from the second half of 2022. Most employers appealed, some have already settled out, and in several … Read More »

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