The proposed indoor heat illness prevention standard approved last month by the Cal/OSHA Standards Board was filed with the state Office of Administrative Law (OAL) website on Tuesday, but it may be dead on arrival. Even if OAL approves the regulation, there are enough triable issues present to challenge and delay it, attorneys close to …
A new bill by Senator Dave Cortese would create a presumption that an agricultural employee alleging a heat-related injury or illness is work-related. More importantly, it would allow the applicantâs attorneys to allege in workersâ comp court that Cal/OSHA regulations were violated even if Cal/OSHA hasnât cited the employer. The billâs sponsors are the United …
Questions abound regarding last weekâs meeting of â and vote by â the Cal/OSHA Standards Board. Was the Board âblindsidedâ by a last-minute request to postpone a vote on the indoor heat illness prevention standard by the state Department of Finance (DOF)? Will the Boardâs decision to approve the controversial standard without the required fiscal …
The Cal/OSHA Standards Board has charted out its regulatory schedule for 2024. Some significant projects are due for votes in the coming months. First, it has to sort out the fate of the indoor heat illness prevention regulation, which was subject to a highly controversial vote on March 21st which might not survive scrutiny by …
Homeless people living outdoors in unsanitary conditions could contract and spread contagious diseases such as tuberculosis, typhus, and hepatitis A, but whether sidewalk encampments pose a significant health threat to the public or not is unclear. Cal/OSHAâs Division of Occupational Safety and Health Administration does not appear to have ever discussed regulations to protect the …
The Cal/OSHA Standards Board, despite being directed to remove the indoor heat illness prevention regulation from its scheduled vote today, in an unprecedented action, unanimously approved the standard anyway, leaving …
Cal/OSHA’s Bureau of Investigations (BOI) will have no personnel in Northern California following the resignation of Julio Alfaro, a senior investigator who was the lone BOI representative in the north …
As Cal/OSHAâs Division of Occupational Safety and Health searches for its third chief in the past several years, candidates are starting to surface. Three internal DOSH candidates have applied. Now, a member of the Standards Board has thrown her hat in the ring. Nola Kennedy, PhD., CIH, the Boardâs occupational health representative, appears to be …