Letters to High Hazard Employers Are Going Out

SAN FRANCISCO - Letters signed by Cal-OSHA Chief John Howard are being sent to about 400 employers in the private sector notifying them that their establishments have been identified as high hazard. One-hundred-four self-insured employers were selected on the basis of a severity-based formula developed by Mark Ashcraft and Joe Markey, the respective heads of Self-Insurance Plans in the Department of Industrial Relations and the California Self-Insurers Association. Approximately 300 other employers insur