Digest of COSHAB-ALJ's decision dated April 22, 1991, Docket No. 90-R2D4-839-X (Stockton, CA). Adolf Loeb, Administrative Law Judge.
For Employer: Janet Rios, Coordinator of Nursing. For DOSH: A. Lennox Welsh, Attorney.
Employer's appeal from a special order was granted, and the order was vacated. (A special order is an order "written by the chief or the chief's authorized representative to correct an unsafe condition, device, or place of employment which...cannot be made safe under existing standards or orders of the standards board." Labor Code 6305. It is enforceable as if it were a safety order, but applies only to the specified work or workplac
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