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Cal/OSHA Advisory Committee Announced –– Three Meetings

After several months, the Department of Industrial Relations announced the 2025 schedule for the Cal/OSHA Advisory Committee. The committee’s purpose is to “promote and improve occupational health and safety conditions and public safety in California.” Stakeholders provide ideas, information, advice, and assistance to DIR and Cal/OSHA. The committee will meet on May 22nd, August 28th, … Read More »

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California Divers Applaud Coming Title 8 Changes

Under a proposal by the Cal/OSHA Standards Board, the term “technical diving” will be eliminated, but procedures under that concept, which divers in California say are crucial to safety, will be preserved. Fed-OSHA has approved the changes. Thus ends a regulatory saga that began more than 10 years ago when the Board moved to adopt … Read More »

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High-Dollar Cases in Latest Settlements

Among the hundreds of settlements to Cal/OSHA cases approved by the Appeals Board in March are two involving fatalities and serious injuries that had hundreds of thousands of dollars in proposed penalties at stake. Here’s how those, and other significant cases, settled out. Alhambra Foundry, a metalworks and fabrication company, has agreed to pay $147,350 … Read More »

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Debra Lee Confirmed as DOSH Chief

Debra Lee, a 30-plus-year employee of Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, has been confirmed as its Chief. The California Senate Rules Committee approved her 5-0, and the full Senate followed up with a 33-0 vote. “I joined Cal/OSHA as an industrial hygienist back in 1994, wanting to be an agent of change,” she … Read More »

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Cal/OSHA’s PPE ‘Horcher’

The Cal/OSHA Standards Board has moved quickly to adopt a Fed-OSHA final rule created during the last days of the previous administration. The rule is simple: It requires that personal protective equipment (PPE) is of safe design and construction and properly fits each employee. It is being adopted as a “Horcher” rule, meaning it is … Read More »

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Cal/OSHA Cites Employers Cited for Trenching, Fall Fatalities

Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health has cited three employers and proposed sizable penalties in 2024 cases involving a trench collapse and two fatal falls. The most significant case is against W.A. Rasic Construction, based in Long Beach, following an August 28th death at a San Diego construction site. Joel Olea Gomez, 27, was … Read More »

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Bird Flu Efforts Not Enough?

California employers have distributed millions of pieces of personal protective equipment; Cal/OSHA has monitored thousands of employees at dairies and poultry farms and conducted inspections at dozens of compliance inspections ostensibly to control the bird flu outbreak, which has hit this state’s animal agricultural industry. Now, a controversy has developed at the Cal/OSHA Standards Board … Read More »

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