Labor petitioned the Cal/OSHA Standards Board for emergency and permanent standards to protect employees from exposure to COVID-19, the Wuhan, China, virus. Oakland-based Worksafe and the National Lawyers Guild’s (NLG) …
Nurse representatives and other employee advocates are pressing Cal/OSHA to rethink its stance on respirator protections, as the state attempts to remedy a severe shortage. The issue was thoroughly debated …
Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health has received up to 1,500 complaints about employers alleged failing to provide proper protection during the COVID-19 crisis, according to DOSH Deputy Chief …
So far, California has six of the 12 cases of 2019-nCoV – novel coronavirus – in the United States, and health officials here expect more. California’s situation is a little …
An organization representing 61 health officers from California counties and cities petitioned the Cal/OSH Standards Board to drop its requirement for annual tuberculosis testing of healthcare workers. The requirement is …
By a majority vote following a public hearing, the following revision to a Title 8 safety order has been adopted by the Cal/OSH Standards Board. It has been approved by …
SACRAMENTO – Public agencies won a victory before the Cal/OSH Standards Board on June 20, which voted 4-3 to allow emergency responders to use less-costly N100 respirators when handling suspected …
The Division of Occupational Safety and Health is charging Oakland’s Alta Bates Summit Medical Center with two willful violations of the California aerosol transmissible diseases standard after a complaint triggered …