About This Archive  | DCHAS-L 2009 Index   | DCHAS-L Yearly Index
person wearing a disposable face shield and surgical style mask

Check out Safety Emporium for your N95, N99, and face shield needs.

Previous by Date:
Subject: Re: CalOSHA & UCLA
Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 15:36:04 +1000
Author: Paul Dover 		Next by Date:
Subject: Re: Gloves for Phenol - Chloroform
Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 06:45:06 -0500
Author: Suzanne Hamm


Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 12:01:42 +0000
Reply-To: marcelina santiago <marcetito**At_Symbol_Here**HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender: DCHAS-L Discussion List <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**LIST.UVM.EDU>
From: marcelina santiago <marcetito**At_Symbol_Here**HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: CalOSHA & UCLA
Comments: To: paul.dover**At_Symbol_Here**pharm.monash.edu.au
In-Reply-To: <89907EA1DCFB7548A431C13A270F9DD506B17024**At_Symbol_Here**prk-exch-01.vcp.local>

OSHA cannot cite for the fatality, only for the hazards that cause d it. Besides each citation can only go up to $7,000 unless its a willful citation (plain indifference or intentional disregard). I think our NATIONAL average for cases that involved fatalities for last year was ~ $3500.  This could be very frustrating and I know it seems like very little, but that's the way it works.
 
Marcelina Santiago, PhD
OSHA Compliance Officer
 

Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 15:36:04 +1000
From: Paul.Dover**At_Symbol_Here**PHARM.MONASH.EDU .AU
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] CalOSHA & UCLA
To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**LIST.UVM. EDU

Guys,

This is shameful! $31850 for a fatality. We would get fined double that for an explosion. Foster=92s grou p recently got fined over $1,000,000 for an occupational fatality when they had not installed a failsafe they were instructed to do by Worksafe (o ur equivalent of OSHA) on a previous inspection.  Admit tedly it was a million AUS $.

 

Cheers, Paul

 

____________________________________________

Paul Dover
Resources Manager
Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Action
Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Monash University (Parkville Campus)
381 Royal Parade, Parkville
Victoria, 3052. Australia

Phone: +61 3 9903 9551
Fax:   +61 3 9903 9143

Email: Paul.Dover**At_Symbol_Here**pharm.monash.edu.au
Web:   http ://www.pharm.monash.edu.au

From: DCHAS-L Discussion List [mailto:DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of NEAL LANGERMAN
Sent: Tuesday, 5 May 2009 7:59 PM
To: Paul Dover
Subject: [DCHAS-L] CalOSHA & UCL A

 

Cal OSHA issued its citations on the U CLA fatality at 16h30 Monday 4 May.

Cal OSHA fined UCLA $31850 for the fat ality.  $18,000 was for inadequate use of PPE, most of the remai nder was for lack of training.

 

No surprises in the citation.

 

nl

 

------------------------- ------------------ ---------------------------------------

The information co ntained in this message is privileged and confidential and protected from d isclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, o r an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the inten ded recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribu tion or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have r eceived this communication in error, please notify us immediately by repl ying to the message and deleting it from your computer.

NEAL LANGERMAN
ADVANCED CHEMICAL SAFETY, Inc.
7563 CONVOY Ct
SAN DIEGO CA 92111
(858) 874 5577 (phone, 24/7)
(858) 874 8239 (FAX)
www.c hemical-safety.com

 


Windows Live=99: Keep your life in sync. Check it out.

Previous post   |  Top of Page   |   Next post


The content of this page reflects the personal opinion(s) of the author(s) only, not the American Chemical Society, ILPI, Safety Emporium, or any other party. Use of any information on this page is at the reader's own risk. Unauthorized reproduction of these materials is prohibited. Send questions/comments about the archive to secretary@dchas.org.
The maintenance and hosting of the DCHAS-L archive is provided through the generous support of Safety Emporium.