SACRAMENTO - Every so often at Cal-OSHA Advisory Committee meetings, someone asks what percentage of the penalties proposed when an employer is cited are actually collected. Exact numbers have been hard to come by because Fed-OSHA is only interested in proposed penalties and Cal-OSHA has a bifurcated system under which the Appeals Board has the power to reduce or eliminate penalties, after which another Department of Industrial Relations unit tries to collect them. Now the question can be answered, ass
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