Safety Materials

 

Employer Requirements

• Employer Required Postings

  • All employers in the State of California are required to notify their employees of certain rights and/or obligations, such as posting some safety and health guidelines in areas easily accessible to employees.

• Emergency Medical Services

  • Cal/OSHA regulation 8 CCR § 1512 specifies that first-aid supplies must be made available to all employees.

 

Equipment Precautions

• Scaffold Safety

  • Have you ever had to use existing scaffolding at a job site to reach your work location, looked at it, and wondered if it was safe to use or not? How can you tell if a scaffold has been properly erected and is safe to climb? Learn how to prioritize safety in the workplace as you’re “sizing up” that scaffolding yourself.

• Rolling Scaffolds

  • Safety standards for rolling scaffolds are necessary to understand and differentiate from other scaffold standards.

• Skylight Safety

  • Unprotected skylights can be dangerous and lead to deaths. A worker may trip, lean, or back into a skylight and fall to the ground below. For this reason alone, protection from these hazards is of primary concern.

• Ladder Safety

  • Read the most commonly cited subsections of the ladder safety regulation by Cal/OSHA here.

• Forklift Safety

  • Lift trucks (forklifts) are frequently used to elevate employees and there are certain requirements that must be followed to protect employees from falling off forklifts.

• Ensure Fall Protection Equipment is Inspected

  • Read an interesting California Occupational Safety and Health Appeals Board reconsideration about a serious violation citation being upheld for a company’s failure to properly inspect fall protection arrest systems prior to use.

 

Cal/OSHA Reminders

• Cal/OSHA Reminds Employers to Protect Workers from Unhealthy Air due to Wildfire Smoke

  • Cal/OSHA is reminding employers that California’s protection from wildfire smoke standard requires them to take steps to protect their workers from unhealthy air due to wildfire smoke. Harmful air quality from wildfire smoke can occur anywhere in the state on short notice, so employers must be prepared before a wildfire event occurs.

• Cal/OSHA Reminder: How Employers Can Protect Outdoor Workers from Heat Illness

  • Cal/OSHA is reminding all employers with outdoor workers of California’s heat illness prevention standard, which states that employers must implement high-heat procedures to prevent heat illness when the temperature is 95 degrees or more.

• Cal/OSHA Reminder: Respirable Crystalline Silica, Beryllium, and Heat Illness Prevention

  • Cal/OSHA enforces two regulations that were revised due to changes made by federal OSHA to the Respirable Crystalline Silica standard and the Beryllium standard, both focused on the construction industry.