Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health has increased the penalties for all violations except the serious variety. The increase is mandatory and comes as the result of an act …
As Cal-OSHA Reporter began its first year of publication, the Cal/OSHA program was getting itself set up. The Standards Board was about to meet for the first time on January …
Things started to get back to normal, whatever that is, in 2022. Nonetheless, the shadow of the pandemic continues to shade the Cal/OSHA community, while other important regulatory matters peeked …
In 1973, inflation was at more than 6%, the U.S. Supreme Court made a landmark ruling on reproductive rights, and OPEC voted to increase the price of oil by 200%. …
Cal/OSHA missed its goal of 5,775 inspections in 2021 by about 10%, Fed-OSHA says in its latest evaluation of the program. Nonetheless, the Feds say the agency made progress toward …
The fund used to finance Cal/OSHA will increase for the 2022-23 fiscal year, but the assessments charged on top of employers’ workers’ comp premium will go down. Labor Code §§ …
Inspections conducted and violations cited by Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health were both up significantly in the first quarter of 2022 versus the comparable period in 2021, according …
Fifty years of Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health doing everything on paper could be coming to an end in 2023. The Department of Industrial Relations says it is …