California Workplaces, Workers, Keep Increasing, But Not Safety Inspectors

California continues to have the lowest ratio of workplace safety and health inspectors to workers - by a significant margin - according to statistics released by the California Association of Professional Scientists (CAPS), the union that represents Cal/OSHA inspectors.The Golden State had one inspector per every 98,000 workers as of December 2004, CAPS said. The next-lowest ratio was for Fed-OSHA, at 1 per 58,565 (as of April 2004). On the West Coast, Oregon had a 1/22,286 ratio (Nove