DOSH Will Seek Emergency Regulation to Bring Labor Code Requirements on – Smoking Ban to Title 8

OAKLAND -- In the wake of a Cal/OSH Appeals Board Decision After Reconsideration holding that the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) cannot directly cite under the state Labor Code, the agency said it will propose incorporating the state's ban on smoking in the workplace directly into Title 8.Acting DOSH Chief Len Welsh told the Sept. 4 meeting of the Cal/OSHA Advisory Committee that the Division likely will issue an emergency regulation, and then follow it up with a permanent stan