Quote of the day
“We’ve heard for months … that this is an emergency and the ETS will be revised when necessary. Well, now it’s necessary.”
Helen Cleary of Phylmar Regulatory Roundtable, addressing the Cal/OSH Standards Board about the need to revise the Cal/OSHA’s COVID emergency temporary standard.
Read what she and other stakeholders had to say at a recent meeting, in this edition of Cal-OSHA Reporter
Stakeholders Press Cal/OSHA on COVID Revisions
With a California reopening in the near future, and new federal COVID guidelines in place, stakeholders are wondering when we will see much-anticipated revisions to the Cal/OSHA COVID emergency standard. Here’s what the agency says.
Cal/OSHA has issued its second set of citations for violations of the wildfire smoke protection standard. Here’s what the agency says the employer failed to do.
Cal/OSHA Takes the Plunge on Technical Diving Safety Revisions
After the Standards Board published a proposal to preserve certain diving standards in California, Fed-OSHA said it didn’t measure up to federal standards. Now that opinion has changed. What happened in the meantime?
Both Cal/OSHA and the date palm industry agree that a regulation is needed for an innovative technique to get employees into trees for vital work. But the devil is in the details, and that’s what’s bedeviling both sides.
Workplace Fatality Update – Only Two From COVID
Good news on the fatality front: California is seeing an ever-declining number of COVID cases. Here are the latest incidents.