The holding of video hearings before the Cal/OSHA Appeals Board has been a creature of necessity during the pandemic. But now it appears the practice could become a permanent practice of the Board. Internal people in the Department of Industrial Relations are talking about the Board’s groundbreaking efforts becoming a model for other boards and …
There are four new workplace fatalities – none of them COVID-related. In Montclair, an employee of JVEC, Inc., was electrocuted while working on a set of lights. No other information is available yet about this incident. In Fortuna, an employee of recycling operation Eel River Transportation and Salvage died from injuries suffered while working under …
Cal/OSHA and employers have reached agreement in citation cases involving fatalities and serious injuries. Here are some of the most significant recent settlement cases. Caught on a Shaft Security Paving Co., a Westlake Village employer, will pay $31,825 of a proposed $95,560 (33%) in the October 2018 death of an employee at an El Centro …
There are 10 new workplace fatalities in recent days, only two of them COVID cases. Those fatalities include employees of: Hotel Del Coronado, the famous San Diego-area hotel; and Superior Grocers in the Los Angeles area. The non-COVID fatalities include two falls. In Santa Clara, an employee of Rivera Remodeling fell off a ladder and …
The Cal/OSHA Standards Board voted to pull back from the Office of Administrative Law revisions to the COVID emergency standard (ETS) it adopted on June 3rd. In the meantime, the Division of Occupational Safety and Health will create a new set of revisions – these in line with the recently updated guidelines from the California …
Four occupational safety and health bills have advanced from their houses of origin in the California Legislature, two in the Senate and two from the Assembly. The most prominent (or some would say ominous) is SB 606, by Senator Lena Gonzalez (D-Long Beach). Among its many provisions, the legislation would apply Fed-OSHA’s “egregious” employer provisions …