Tagged in: Cal/OSHA

Was Cal/OSHA Correct in Citing Uber & Lyft?

After Cal/OSHA cited two rideshare companies in August 2022, as many companies do, they appealed the citations to the Cal/OSHA Appeals Board. San Francisco’s Uber Technologies and Lyft, Inc., argued that Cal/OSHA lacked jurisdiction to issue citations because the drivers who filed the complaints weren’t even employees. The companies also sought to short-circuit the cases … Read More »

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Workplace Violence Committee

Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health will reconvene its advisory committee on the general industry workplace violence prevention standard on November 12th in Oakland. DOSH revised the draft language for the proposed language last May. Cal/OSHA already is enforcing WPV prevention through 2023’s SB 553, via Labor Code §6409.1. DOSH is adding language to … Read More »

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Cal/OSHA Cites Law Enforcement Using Labor Code

Cal/OSHA has cited two north-state law enforcement agencies in the wake of the death of an officer in March during a drug trafficking disruption operation in Olivehurst. In doing so, the agency has used powers to cite directly from the California Labor Code on workplace violence prevention. The Yuba County Sheriff’s Department faces more than … Read More »

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2025-26 High-Hazard Industry List

DART rates – “Days Away, Restricted or Transferred” – are down in California, according to the 2025-26 High Hazard Industry List, just released by Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health. The list, which follows on the next two pages, is for the new fiscal year, which began on October 1st. The list is established … Read More »

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Cal/OSHA’s Identity Question

It has been an article of faith around these parts that “Cal/OSHA” refers to all of the components of the state program, but a recent note from the communications team at the Department of Industrial Relations throws this assumption into question. In a recent Cal-OSHA Reporter article about the adoption of the Confined Spaces in … Read More »

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How Effective is Heat Illness Standard?

Research by the Workers’ Compensation Research Institute concludes that California’s first-in-the-nation heat illness prevention standard resulted in substantial declines in work-related heat illnesses. The Waltham, Massachusetts-based organization states that data show the standard, General Industry Safety Orders §3395, has decreased the number of work-related cases on hot days by up to 27% in agriculture, 25% … Read More »

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Multiemployer Scaffold Case

A Los Angeles-area construction contractor has settled its Cal/OSHA citations case following a September 2022 scaffold collapse that seriously injured a worker. But, as so often happens in multi-employer cases, the direct employer in this instance still faces six serious violations and more than $144,000 in proposed penalties. The employee of Sunland Scaffolds, also based … Read More »

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