Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health will likely be looking for its second chief in as many years. Current Chief Doug Parker has been nominated as Assistant Secretary of …
Senator Lena Gonzalez and co-author, Assemblyman Lorena Gonzalez, through SB 606, seek to apply Fed-OSHA’s “egregious employer” provisions to Cal/OSHA violations. But the bill is much more than just that …
Governor Gavin Newsom’s office has appointed Danielle A. Lucido, of Albany, as chief counsel for Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health. It is another appointment from Worksafe, the organized …
Among the recent settlements between Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health and employers are five cases involving fatalities. Here are the results of those cases. National Renovation, Inc.: DOSH …
A 225-page proposal by the Cal/OSHA Standards Board is essentially non-substantive and would have little to no cost. So, what’s the point, and why a years-long effort to make this …
The author of the bill mandating the long-stalled indoor heat standard is furious that a fiscal impact review is holding it up. She wants to exempt Cal/OSHA regulations from the …
Several petitions are winding their way into the regulatory process. And they’re quite interesting. Gold mines and construction hoists are two. The oldest operating gold mine in the United States …
There are six new workplace fatalities, four of which are COVID-related. COVID cases continue to decrease substantially. The non-COVID cases include: A fatal fall in Irvine. An employee of Troy …