LOS ANGELES -- Unlike Fed-OSHA, California does not have a general-duty clause, which the federal government says it will use to cite employers for ergonomics violations.Instead, the state has its own hard-won ergonomics standard, General Industry Safety Order 5110. Since the late 1990s, citations under the standard have risen steadily, as well as proposed penalties. Statistics recently released by the Division of Occupational Safety and Health show that the number of citations rose between 1999 and
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