SAN FRANCISCO - When the state legislature created the High Hazard Employer compliance and consultation program in 1993, as part of workers' comp reform, it directed Cal-OSHA to select employers for the program from a combination of data sources, including workers' compensation experience modification ratings (X-mods).There are those (among them Ed Woodward of the California Workers' Compensation Institute) who consider X-mods a lousy way to decide which employers are safe. However, the legislation sp
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