Sacramento—The Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board approved on June 20 an indoor heat standard to protect indoor workers from heat illness. The new regulation will require indoor workplaces to be…
Santa Ana—Cal/OSHA issued 18 citations, including six citations for willful-serious violations, to Parter Medical Products, Inc. for failing to protect its employees from overexposure to ethylene oxide, a toxic chemical.…
Sacramento—Cal/OSHA has posted guidance on monkeypox (MPX) to ensure workers in California are protected from the aerosol transmissible disease. This guidance applies to workplaces covered by the Aerosol Transmissible Diseases…
Cal/OSHA is notifying employers in the construction, agriculture, tree-trimming, landscaping, car wash and warehouse industries that targeted inspections are occurring during the heat waves affecting most of the state now…
Cal/OSHA is reminding all employers to protect outdoor workers from heat illness as excessive heat watches have been issued in many areas around California. The temperature is forecast to reach or exceed…
https://twitter.com/i/status/1340407333961097216 Luciano Gonzalez Munoz, a 45-year-old man from Puebla, Mexico, died yesterday, Dec. 19, after the soil around a swimming pool being constructed in the backyard of a home in…
Enrique Garcia-Vazques, an 18-year-old employee, died in a workplace accident at Aardvark Clay and Supplies, a clay products business in Santa Ana on Thursday, Sep. 20, at 11:15 a.m., according…
Orange County District Attorney Press Release For Immediate Release: September 9, 2014 Case # 30-2014-00741129-CU-BT-CJC AMERICAN APPAREL TO PAY $1 MILLION FOR ENDANGERING EMPLOYEES BY FAILING TO PROVIDE SAFE WORK ENVIRONMENT *Unsafe environment…
Mr. Richard Fazlollahi, District Manager, Cal/OSHA in Anaheim, spoke on Wednesday, August 17, at the monthly lunch meeting of the O.C. Chapter of the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), at…