Cal/OSHA for decades has been held up as a model for states (21 and Puerto Rico) that run their own OSHA programs. But recent budget slashing and under-staffing are limiting enforcement actions.
When guardrails are installed for worker safety in the state of California, Federal OSHA AND Cal/OSHA are the governing regulations that shall be followed. There are some differences in the specific regulations between the two regulations.
Workers in California’s hospitals and doctors’ offices may be less likely to get hit, kicked, bitten or grabbed under new workplace standards adopted by a state workplace safety board Thursday.
The occupational keynote Tuesday, October 19 will focus on workplace violence and what workplaces can do to prepare themselves. The speakers are Carol Cambridge, CEO of Violence Free; Carri Casteel, MPH, PhD, President-Elect Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research Associate Professor, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health University of Iowa; Kevin L. Foust, Chief of Police & Director of Security, Virginia Tech Police Department; Juliann Sum, JD, ScM, Chief of Cal/OSHA.
A construction worker on his second day on the job fell 53 stories to his death yesterday at a downtown Los Angeles high-rise slated to be the tallest building in the West, officials said.
In October of 2010, a psychiatric technician was strangled by a patient at Napa State Hospital and a Registered Nurse working at a Contra Costa County jail in Martinez, California died as a result of being assaulted by an inmate.
In the biggest-ever settlement in California over workplace safety violations involving a single victim, Bumble Bee Foods will pay $6 million in the death of an employee who was accidentally cooked in a 270 degree industrial oven.
Monday afternoon at the 2015 AIHce in Salt Lake City features the annual Jeffrey S. Lee Lecture, this year given by Garrett Brown, titled, “Two Decades Spent Helping Workers Protect Their Own Health and Safety in a Pitiless, Globalized Economy.”
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently released its final count of workplace fatalities for 2013 (the latest year calculated) showing California’s death toll that year to be 396 — more than one worker killed every day — with 21 more fatalities than in 2012. The 2013 figure is the highest number of deaths since 2009.
