How to Turn Around a Bureaucracy: – Appeals Board Embracing Change, Digging into Big Backlog of Cases

OAKLAND -- There is light at the end of the tunnel for Cal/OSH Appeals Board and its long-standing backlog of appeals cases, said Candice Traeger, new board chairperson. The good news: it is a train. "I'm fond of saying to the people at the board that there's a train coming. You have two choices: Get on board or get underneath it." She means that change is happening at the board, which has been short-staffed for years and inund