Tagged in: Standards Board
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 …
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Lead Regulations Moving Despite Objections
A 45-day comment period on the proposed lead revisions apparently is enough. Despite indications otherwise, the Cal/OSHA Standards Board declined to extend the comment period, as requested by employer-allied stakeholders. The declination came at the April 20 board meeting – like it was a forgone conclusion, as no Board members even made a motion to …
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California Stays Behind on Autonomous Tractors
California remains behind the rest of the nation and world in adopting autonomous tractors and vehicles on farms. But the Cal/OSHA Standards Board continues to assert it is too early to hold advisory talks about modernizing regulations for autonomous tractors. A vote to authorize a committee failed at its March meeting, with a seventh member …
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Latest Cal/OSHA Inspection Stats
Onsite inspections by Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health are rising. In 2022 the rose to near pre-pandemic levels, and the agency issued citations for more than 11,000 violations, according to the latest DOSH statistics. More than 30% of all inspections last year were in construction, while 30% of the violations were issued to …
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WOEMA Petitions for Emergency Standard
Citing an “emerging epidemic of advanced silicosis cases” in California’s engineered stone fabrication industry, the Western Occupational and Environmental Medical Association (WOEMA) has petitioned the Cal/OSHA Standards Board for an emergency standard. “We are concerned that the current general industry standard for the control of silica hazards (General Industry Safety Orders §5204) is insufficiently protective …
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Mandatory Reporting of Carcinogens & Silica
Employers must report their use of regulated carcinogens, including silica. Cal/OSHA has established a new way to do that. Here’s how and links to where. Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health has established online forms for employers’ mandatory reports of carcinogen and silica use. All employers who use regulated carcinogens must report their use …
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Emergency Standard Needed for Silica Hazard?
Several years ago, Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health instituted a special-emphasis program on silica exposure in the countertop manufacturing industry, triggered by deaths and serious injuries in this sector. DOSH inspected more than 100 employers, issued almost 700 citations and proposed about $1.8 million in penalties. It found overexposures to silica in 47 …
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