The Cal/OSHA Standards Board has authorized an advisory committee to discuss the remaining contentious issues surrounding lifts. It has been more than a year since the Board revised its regulation on construction personnel hoists (CPH), clarifying when hoists must be installed on high-rise projects. Like the previous issue, which was given expedited attention, Board staff …
48 COR 40-8447 [¶23,127R] JURISDICTION – PETITION FOR RECONSIDERATION, INTERLOCUTORY Labor Code § 6614 (2021) – Even if Employer’s petitions for reconsideration raised questions of law, which the Appeals Board may rule on under an exception to the general rule that interlocutory matters are not appealable, the Board declined to reconsider the petitions based on …
Three significant occupational safety and health bills are moving forward in the California legislature. The most significant of them – SB 606 – has been amended again. The bill by Senator Lena Gonzalez (D-Long Beach) was previously approved by the state Senate and is in the Assembly, where it recently passed the Labor and Employment …
The holding of video hearings before the Cal/OSHA Appeals Board has been a creature of necessity during the pandemic. But now it appears the practice could become a permanent practice of the Board. Internal people in the Department of Industrial Relations are talking about the Board’s groundbreaking efforts becoming a model for other boards and …
48 COR 40-8439 [¶23,122R] JURISDICTION – PETITION FOR RECONSIDERATION, INTERLOCUTORY Labor Code § 6614 (2021) – Even if Employer’s petition for reconsideration raised questions of law, which the Appeals Board may rule on under an exception to the general rule that interlocutory matters are not appealable, the Board declined to reconsider the petition based on …
Poultry processing giant Foster Farms and four contractors face cumulative penalties of almost $300,000 after a Cal/OSHA investigation into COVID deaths at Livingston company last year. Foster Farms alone is facing more than $180,000 in proposed penalties. The Division of Occupational Safety and Health opened investigations at Foster Farms’ food processing and distribution facilities after …
Governor Gavin Newsom’s May budget revise keeps the across-the-board increases he proposed for Cal/OSHA in January. They amount to 8% for enforcement and the Appeals Board and 10% for the Standards Board. In announcing his final budget proposal, Newsom touted a purported $75 billion state surplus. The state Legislative Analyst says the surplus is really …
48 COR 40-8423 [¶23,113R] JURISDICTION – PETITION FOR RECONSIDERATION, INTERLOCUTORY Labor Code § 6614 (2021) – Even if Employer’s petition for reconsideration raised questions of law, which the Appeals Board may rule on under an exception to the general rule that interlocutory matters are not appealable, the Board declined to reconsider the petition based on …