Tagged in: Cal/OSHA

Fatality Settlements – Aug 18, 2023

Employers and Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health have resolved more fatality cases. Here’s how some of the latest turned out. Creative Stone Manufacturing, dba, Coronado Stone Products: This Fontana employer will pay $50,350 (69%) of a proposed $73,040 in the July 25th, 2018, death of 28-year-old Jashua Gutierrez. He was inside a concrete … Read More »

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Cal/OSHA Inspection Stats

Cal/OSHA in 2022 conducted the most onsite inspections in several years, although not as many as it did before the pandemic. And it issued citations for more violations than the pandemic years, but not nearly as many in the five years before that. The statistics were recently released. They reveal that more than half of … Read More »

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Cal/OSHA Will Have Silica ETS

The Cal/OSHA Standards Board, overruling its staff recommendation, has approved promulgating a controversial emergency temporary standard. The standard requires the fabricated stone industry to protect employees from silica exposure.   … Read More »

Tag – Cal/OSHA’s It

Cal/OSHA is 50 years old and perhaps it needs some rebranding. That could be the thinking behind a recent memorandum from Division of Occupational Safety and Health Chief Jeff Killip seeking suggestions for a potential “tag line” for the agency. Cal-OSHA Reporter has obtained a copy of the memo. “We are creating a Cal/OSHA tagline … Read More »

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Movie Set Safety Bill Signed

The California Legislature has approved, and Governor Gavin Newsom has signed SB 132, the latest version of legislation aimed at addressing firearms safety on movie and television productions. The bill, and previous incarnations, were spurred by a fatal shooting of a cinematographer and the wounding of the director in October 2021 on the set of … Read More »

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Troubles at Cal/OSHA’s Bureau Of Investigations

Cal/OSHA’s Bureau of Investigations, which for years has experienced chronic understaffing and what insiders describe as low morale, got a little smaller recently when a Southern California investigator resigned, citing what he calls essentially a dead-end job. Now BOI is down to three personnel: one investigator in Northern California, one in the Southland, and a … Read More »

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