Hearing on Cone-and-Bar System
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Cal/OSHA Seeks Huge Penalties in Two Cases Involving Willful Violations
Cal/OSHA has cited two employers in the span of one week, with combined penalties reaching $840,000. One is a government entity. Los Angeles City Animal Services faces $563,000 in proposed penalties, and Parkwood Landscape Maintenance, $277,000 in potential penalties. Neither involves fatalities, although the animal shelter case involved an employee who was mauled by a …
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Cal/OSHA’s Workplace Violence Plan
Since July 2024, California employers have been working under the requirements of SB 553 for workplace violence (WPV) prevention. After several years of planning to enact a new Cal/OSHA regulation, the Division of Occupational Safety and Health will take the next steps in the new year to combine the law with its own vision. That …
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Cal/OSHA Brings Heat in Landmark Case
Cal/OSHA has issued its first-ever citation for a willful-serious violation of the outdoor heat illness standard. It proposes more than $276,000 in penalties. It cited Parkwood Landscape Maintenance, a landscaping …
Cal/OSHA Fatality Cases Resolved 2024
Here are the results of recent settlements, one dating back almost nine years, between Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health and employers in fatality cases. The Appeals Board approved these resolutions. The long-delayed case concerns SW Forage, a Hesperia hay dealer. It suffered a workplace fatality on February 16th, 2016. A 49-year-old male machine …
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Board Grants Rehearing on Denied Construction Personnel Hoist Variance
The Cal/OSHA Standards Board has granted rehearing to the Tutor/Perini / O&G Joint Venture regarding a variance to Title 8 safety orders the Board denied in July on the use of construction personnel hoists (CPH) in tunnels. The joint venture is installing four temporary CPHs at shaft locations for future Los Angeles and Beverly Hills …
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California Regulates Autonomous in Agriculture
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Cal/OSHA Action in Fatality Cases – Nov 27, 2024
Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health has made determinations in several fatality cases from earlier this year, citing some employers and declining to cite others. Here are the latest cases as we follow up on our weekly fatality reports. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department: Cal/OSHA cited the Department with four serious violations, including two …
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