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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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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...