Quote of the day
“We all have a moral responsibility to fix this now.”
Standards Board chair Joseph Alioto, Jr., about California’s silicosis crisis and the competing petitions to address it.
Get the full story in this week’s Cal-OSHA Reporter.
What To Do About Engineered Stone?
While an occupational medical group has called on Cal/OSHA to ban the fabrication of engineered stone, an industry association is pleading for a calmer approach. Here’s what the organization has in mind.
Does First Aid Proposal Have More Boo-Boo’s?
It’s been a long and winding road to get updated Cal/OSHA requirements for first-aid kits, but the finish line appears in sight. What potholes are still out there on the regulatory highway?
PSM and the Labor Participation Question
Cal/OSHA says its proposed revisions to the PSM standard for refineries are about clarity, cleaning up ambiguities, and heading off federal preemption. Labor representatives say it’s a matter of control. Here’s what the community had to say at a recent public hearing.
Here are the latest workplace fatalities from around California.