The Cal/OSHA Appeals Board is proposing revisions to its rules on various stages of the appeal process to make them “more transparent and understandable and increase the efficiency of its proceedings,” it says. The Board will hold a public hearing on the proposal on October 7th in person at its Sacramento headquarters and by videoconference. …
Longtime construction safety professional and former Cal/OSHA Standards Board member Kathleen “Kate” Crawford has passed away following an illness. She announced her retirement from the Board earlier this year, having spent about five years on the rulemaking body as a management member. “Kate exemplified the best in policy discourse,” says Board chair Joseph Alioto, Jr., …
Biochemistry student Shourish Mukherjee is making another run at a standard. In his reshaped petition,, he is seeking signage and infographics at residential construction sites to warn employees of respiratory hazards he believes current standards don’t adequately cover. The Cal/OSHA Standards Board denied an earlier petition from the University of California, Riverside student, because staff …
Cal/OSHA is undergoing several notable personnel changes at once. Danielle “Dan” Lucido, chief counsel for Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, has announced her departure from the Division, reportedly to the National Labor Relations Board. She will leave in early September. Lucido is leaving for personal reasons. “I love this job,” she tells Cal-OSHA …
Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health complied with a state audit and is currently using updated policies and procedures. A highly critical 2025 state audit mandated the P&Ps, but the updated policies and procedures have not yet appeared on the agency’s public portal. Stakeholders are asking the Division what’s going on. Even though the …
Statistics recently released by Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health show that for the first half of 2026, inspections conducted by the Division met or outpaced those for the same period in 2025. But violations cited by DOSH dropped significantly compared with the first two quarters last year across all major industrial sectors. Here …
The Memorial Day near-catastrophe involving GKN Aerospace in Garden Grove was a huge and ultimately very expensive near miss. In the incident, a tank containing methyl methacrylate, used in the manufacture of airplane parts, threatened to trigger a runaway thermal reaction when an emergency pressure valve failed. Such a reaction could have caused an explosion …