Davis Explains SB 508 Veto

By: Cal-OSHA Reporter - The leading occupational safety and health publication in California.

DUBLIN -- Gov. Gray Davis, in a memo to members of the state Senate, said SB 508, which would have taken specific steps to protect community health care workers from violence, was unnecessary and too costly.The bill would have directed the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board to adopt emergency regulations by Jan. 15, 2001, and a final standard by Aug. 1, 2001."Available data on violence against health care workers relate to those workers in hospitals and psychiatric facilities," Da

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