Guys,

This is shameful! $31850 for a fatality. We would get fined double that for an explosion. Foster’s group 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 (our equivalent of OSHA) on a previous inspection.  Admittedly it was a million AUS $.

Cheers, Paul

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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

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

Cal OSHA fined UCLA $31850 for the fatality.  $18,000 was for inadequate use of PPE, most of the remainder was for lack of training.

No surprises in the citation.

nl

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