As expected, the Cal/OSHA Standards Board has voted to quickly promulgate and vote on an emergency regulation to address COVID exposures in non-healthcare workplaces. The question now is what it’s …
Beginning in January 2021, California employers will be required to notify employees, and in some cases health authorities, about potential COVID exposures. In signing AB 685, Governor Gavin Newsom also …
In these days of viruses and wildfires, there is some good news. One of the longest-serving members of Cal/OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Program has recertified, and in the process, is discovering …
Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, using regulations presently in existence, has cited six healthcare organizations and one law enforcement agency for violations connected to COVID in the workplace. …
There are 14 new reported workplace fatalities. including seven COVID-related deaths. The non-COVID incidents include: A death due to explosion involving an employee of Sierra Pacific Lumber Mill in Lincoln. …
As treatments improve, and the death and illness rates decline, a vaccine appears just around the corner, and with the end to the pandemic hopefully in sight, the Cal/OSHA Standards …
The Cal/OSHA Standards Board has made a minor revision to its “placeholder” permanent regulation to protect outdoor workers from wildfire smoke. The board is taking comments on the change until …
Two Southern California employers face almost $600,000 in penalties due to Cal/OSHA COVID investigations. Cal/OSHA says Overhill Farms, based in Vernon, and Jobsource North America, based in Fullerton, failed to …