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Driving Safety – Distracted Driving Classified as Epidemic

Distracted driving, whether drivers are using cell phones on the road, “texting while driving” or otherwise not paying attention to their driving, has become so much a problem that the US Dept. of...

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Time to Train Supervisors About Safety

Join my July 12 Webinar, “Safety Training: Help Your Supervisors Understand – and Execute – Their Critical Role”. Supervisors are critical for your company’s safety program’s success. They are closest...

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Half Way Through the Year – Have You Done Hazard Inspections?

A key to safety and also OSHA compliance is hazard identification and correction. These are essential elements in California’s written safety plans or Illness and Injury Prevention Plans. Each company...

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A “NO Vote” on AB 2346 Heat Illness – A Job Killer of a Proposal

This August, the California State Senate is considering AB 2346- a JOB KILLER bill regarding heat illness. The bill goes beyond current heat illness regulations to impose the following obligations, but...

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Do You Know the Rules About Classifying Medical Treatment As First Aid and...

When an employee is injured on the job, it is important that they receive the best and most appropriate medical care. However, not all medical care must be either reported to your workers’ compensation...

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2013 Employment Laws Will Affect Your Business

Below is a list of new employment laws – scheduled to take effect in 2013 or earlier – that will have an impact on your business. We are here to help you with any questions of compliance – just call me...

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Are You Ready to Prove You Trained Every New Employee in Safety?

Can you produce written proof that every one of your employees has received safety training, particularly new employees? Specifically, can you show: Employees were given safety training for their job?...

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Cal/OSHA Appeals Board Makes it Official – If You Fail To Report A Serious...

The only way to protect your company is to post the Cal/OSHA District Office phone number right next to the 911 or local ambulance phone number on your work emergency phone list! If you or one of your...

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Cal/OSHA Annual Summary (Form 300A) Posting Date Is February 1- Are You Ready?

From February 1 through April 30 of each year, most employers are required by the OSHA Record keeping Standard to post a summary of the prior year’s job-related injuries, even if there were none. In...

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If an Employee Has a Heart Attack-Are You Prepared? And it is Reportable to...

 Thousands of people each year will suffer a   heart attack. Many of these people will have these attacks at the workplace.   By knowing what to do can save that person’s life.   February is Heart...

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Fire Safety – Let’s All Learn from West, Texas

fire The tragic fire and explosion of the fertilizer plant recently in the town of West, Texas should remind all of us of the importance of fire prevention and planning for fire safety. Such fire...

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Time to Plan and Train for Heat Illness

Depending on where you live and work, you may already have experienced warm weather, and even heat alerts. Now is the time to plan for and train your employees about heat illness. This is a legal...

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Prepare for Hazardous Materials – GHS Compliance Training

Take action now to prepare for your obligation as an employer to train your employees about new rules regarding hazardous chemicals in your work, and the training MUST be done by December 1, 2013....

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Heat Illness A High Priority for OSHA

While it is still too early to tell what the 2013 summer weather will be, we can look back on 2012 as the hottest year for California is recorded history.  Despite the hot weather last year, Cal/OSHA...

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Federal and State OSHA Agencies Issued Over $ 2 Million in Fines in Recent Weeks

Companies across the nation in the past several weeks have  received OSHA citations and fines at a record pace, including a Hawaii food warehouse fined $251,000, a petroleum industry manufacturer...

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7 Steps to Identifying, Remedying Gaps in Workplace Safety & Culture

Midwest Generation, an independent power producer that is part of California-based Edison International, was facing an increase in the severity of injuries, including fatalities, at its coal-fired...

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Cal/OSHA and CA Labor Commissioner’s Office – Participating In CA Roofing...

California’s Department of Industrial Relations launched a Roofing Compliance Working Group on Sept. 3 to enforce safety and labor law standards across the state. The group will respond to complaints...

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Cal/OSHA Fines Mira Loma Warehouse for Unsafe Working Conditions

Warehouse located in Mira Loma was fined for a number of unsafe and illegal working conditions this month. The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health issued 12 citations – half of which...

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OSHA Form 300A Is Your Annual Safety Scorecard

All employers with more than 10 employees, with minor exceptions, must keep records of work related injuries. Once a year, from February 1 through April 30, the results of these injuries must be posted...

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Tree-Trimming Fatality At Three Frogs, Inc Prompts Cal/OSHA Big Fines

Cal/OSHA recently issued citations with proposed penalties of $91,865 to Three Frogs, Inc., a La Mesa-based real estate investment company following the investigation of a fatal tree-trimming accident....

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