Now that the saga is close to coming to an end. Here's the latest from the Standards Board, and how you can weigh in.

Cal/OSHA recognizes employers' efforts to promote workplace safety and health. Here are the latest employers to qualify for well-deserved recognition.

This week has seen the annual Stand-Down to Prevent Falls in Construction. Here's the message one residential contractor gave to a project crew to underscore the safety message.

A long-running safety case involving a pinch point and crushing injuries gets its day in the Court of Appeals. Here's how the court ruled.

It's been more than 10 years since Cal/OSHA was poised to update its Elevator Safety Orders. That plan was delayed, then published recently, but delayed again. Here's why and how soon the update could resurface.

Cal/OSHA's Bureau of Investigations is in the midst of a rebuilding project. Here's the next phase it seeks to fund.

After a lengthy delay due to a personnel shortage, Cal/OSHA's Bureau of Investigations has published its 2024 report. Here's an update on cases that were referred and decided during that year.

Here are the latest workplace incidents from around California.

To ban or not to ban the fabrication of engineered stone in California? That is the question before the Cal/OSHA Standards Board. It will have to decide soon. Here's what's at stake.

The six-foot rule in California residential construction is now in place and being enforced by Cal/OSHA. But employers’ concerns about certain aspects of this work remain, and the agency will consider alternatives at a stakeholders meeting. Here are the whys and wherefores.

These employers in recent fatality cases have settled with Cal/OSHA. Here’s how the cases concluded.

A massive explosion in July 2025 killed seven workers. Now, Yolo County has indicted seven individuals for murder and other charges in this important case.

Five California employers have qualified for Cal/OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Program, and thirteen more for Golden Gate safety recognition programs. Here are the latest VPP and Golden Gate recipients.

The Cal/OSHA Appeals Board overturned an ALJ's decision that absolved a general contractor based on "due diligence" in an injury case. But then the employer pointed out that the Board missed some important information. Here's what happened next.

Cal/OSHA has cited several employers in fatality cases from the latter half of 2025. Here are the cases and the agency's citations.

Here are the latest fatal workplace incidents from around California.

Ag employers need skilled labor to meet future needs, and farmworkers need opportunities to enhance their futures. Here's where a Central Valley college is working to bridge that gap.

After a more-than-six-year hiatus, Cal/OSHA’s committee to recommend changes to the airborne contaminants’ permissible exposure limits will be back in action later this month. Here’s what to expect and how to get involved.

Polluted water from Mexico plagues San Diego beaches and environs. It is clearly a hazard to the public, but are more regulations needed to address employee safety? Is it a workplace hazard? One San Diego County legislator thinks so, and here’s what she proposes to do about it.

An autonomous tractor company at the heart of an important experimental variance has gone out of business. What does that mean for the growers seeking greater use of self-driving equipment?

Date palm growers have, for almost two decades, been using safety procedures via the Cal/OSHA variance process. Now it’s time to make them formal, they say. Here are the issues.

A California legislator explains why she authored a bill that would take much of the investigative responsibility away from Cal/OSHA’s Bureau of Investigations.

Ahead of an expedited hearing on allegedly unabated hazards, Cal/OSHA says it needs more time to investigate a tragic police operation, even though it has already issued citations. Here’s what the Cal/OSHA Appeals Board says in response.

After a grenade explodes at a Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department training center, killing three deputies, Cal/OSHA and other agencies are investigating what went wrong. Now Cal/OSHA is weigh-ing in on its findings with a major fine.

A central California high school freshman provides perspectives about school safety. She looks at safety through an interesting lens, and her research and perceptions are worth the read. Click here...

Here are the latest fatal workplace incidents from around California.

An East Bay legislator wants to give investigatory powers from Cal/OSHA's Bureau of Investigations to individual district attorneys. But what's behind the move? Here's what we know so far.

Cal/OSHA has finally published the 2023 Bureau of Investigations report. Here are BOI’s activi-ties for that year and how they compare to previous years.

A letter from the Cal/OSHA Standards Board to county prosecutors on the silicosis crisis pro-voked a sharp response from one district attorney. The Board chair explains his request. And the controversy continues…

A long-simmering debate about when construction employers are required to erect construction personnel hoists is coming to a close with an impending Standards Board vote. Here’s what the regulation would require and what stakeholders are saying.

A high-end residential project, Seaside, overlooks Monterey Bay. But general contractor Shea Homes has not overlooked safety on the project and, in fact, has become a model for the industry. Here’s why and how.

After a hospital employee is stabbed by a homeless man at a San Francisco Peninsula hospital, Cal/OSHA cites the organization for a willful violation of the healthcare violence prevention standard. Here’s how the case was resolved.

Cal/OSHA was forced to remove correctional facilities from its indoor heat illness standard in 2024. It has now released draft language to regulate those workplaces. Here’s the language and how you can weigh in on it.

The Cal/OSHA Standards Board is looking for a force multiplier in the war against silicosis. But a recent letter to seven district attorneys has drawn the ire of at least one such prosecutor. Here’s why.

It's early in the legislative season, but two bills of interest to California's occupational safety and health community have surfaced. Here's what they are and what they would do.