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FLASH: Cal/OSHA Hits SoCal Warehouses with Citations After workers complain about safety conditions, Cal/OSHA takes a good look at Southern California's warehouse industry and finds a host of alleged violations. And here's what DOSH did about it. Read more here ... More...

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School for IIPP School districts have high injury and illness rates, and a cooperative program aims to bring them down. To find out more about this novel approach, read this article. Read more here ... More...

Worker Buried Alive, Dies in Milpitas Hillside Collapse Three days after city inspectors order a construction site shut down due to hazardous conditions, a worker is killed at the site when a hill collapses onto him. Now Cal/OSHA is getting into the act. The latest on this and other recent DOSH investigations. Read more here ... More...

Cal/OSHA Publishes Major Tree- Work Reform Proposal A yearly parade of fatalities and injuries in California tree work prompts Cal/OSHA regulatory action. Here's what the agency proposes. Read more here ... More...

Three Californians on IH Board California is well represented on the national board that certifies industrial hygienists. Here's who they are. Read more here ... More...

DOSH Still Looking for Opinions on Its Advisory Committee The longtime Cal/OSHA sounding board is down to three meetings a year and some question its effectiveness. Here's how you can sound off about its future. Read more here ... More...

Workplace Injuries and Illnesses: A Quarter of a Trillion in Costs Workplace injuries and illnesses cost society more than $250 billion a year, a California researcher finds. And workers' comp doesn't begin to cover things, he says. Read more here ... More...

It's Cal/OSHA Form 300A Posting Time February starts the three-month period in which employers must post a summary of their injuries and illnesses for the previous year. Here's what you need to know. Read more here ... More...

Must I Report an Old Injury Repeatedly? In this edition of Cal/OSHA Questions and Answers, a reader asks if she must continue to record an injury if the employee is off work in subsequent years. Here's what Cal/OSHA says. Read more here ... More...

Cal/OSHA Alleges Serious Violations in San Francisco Roof Collapse What caused a concrete pour at a condominium project to go wrong and seriously injure three workers? Here's what Cal/OSHA says. Read more here ... More...

CEA Honors Swinerton's Obermann for Safety Leadership Construction Employers Association recognizes individuals and companies that exhibited safety leadership in 2011. Click here to see who the honorees are. Read more here ... More...

Stevedore Killed by Falling Container Cal/OSHA is investigating a Jan. 19 incident involving a stack of containers, a crane and an errant cable. Here is what the agency knows so far. Read more here ... More...

Do Cal/OSHA Inspectors Affect Injury Rates? Cal/OSHA inspections are linked to a 20% reduction in injury rates, but how much of that is due to the inspectors themselves? That's what a Rand study is working to find out. Here's what the researchers have determined so far. Read more here ... More...

Union Submits Petition Pushing for "Safe Tucking" A union representing thousands of hotel and hospitality workers has submitted a petition for a proposed standard to the Cal/OSHA Standards Board in hopes of picking up where stalled legislation from last year left off. What does the proposed standard do and who has concerns? Click here to find out. Read more here ... More...

Standards Board Adopts Single-Rail Ladder Prohibition Sometimes one regulatory fix leads to problems somewhere else. That's what happened when Cal/OSHA revised the portable-ladder standards in 2010. Here's the problem that the action led to, and how the Standards Board fixed it. Read more here ... More...

Standards Board Adopts PEL Revisions Cal/OSHA's efforts to adopt new or revised permissible exposure limits have resulted in four substances with substantially reduced PELs. Click here to see what they are and how much they have been changed. Read more here ... More...

Cal/OSHA Rulemakers Give the Nod to Helicopter Fueling Changes An old requirement to prevent sparks during helicopter refueling operations needed a 21st-century update to prevent a potentially explosive situation. Here's what the Standards Board did to remedy things. Read more here ... More...

Cal/OSHA Okays Fed-OSHA "Standards Completion Project" Federal changes to a number of safety orders are now in California's Title 8 with OAL approval of Standards Board action. Read more here ... More...

Fire Departments Get an Economic Breather on Respirator Use Four Southern California agencies get Standards Board permission to use alternative -- and money-saving -- respirators for emergency response. But is DOSH on board with the variance? And how does it protect responders in extreme situations? Click here to find out how. Read more here ... More...

Safety Fests Coming Soon California's safety conference season is about to get started, with several high-profile events. Here's what they are, where they are and when they are. Read more here ... More...