There are 10 new California workplace fatalities under investigation, eight of them from COVID. The non-COVID fatalities include: An electrocution in Planada, Merced County. An employee of Garcia Bros. Trucking …
In the leadup to Cal/OSHA’s COVID emergency temporary standard (ETS), many stakeholders touted the Injury and Illness Prevention Program standard as the model for regulating during a pandemic, instead of …
The Cal/OSHA Standards Board has canceled its first in-person meeting since March 2020 in favor of continued teleconferencing. The move comes as Governor Gavin Newsom signs AB 361, which authorizes …
There are nine new workplace fatalities under investigation, five of them reported as COVID-related, a sharp decrease from recent weeks. The non-COVID fatalities include a vehicle incident, a caught-between, a …
There are 20 new workplace fatalities under investigation, 15 of them reported as COVID-related. The non-COVID fatalities include a fall, a struck-by incident and three as-yet undetermined fatalities. The fall …
Sneaked into the congressional Democrats’ $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill last weekend – shortly before the Budget Committee approved it – are ten-fold increases in Fed-OSHA penalties for serious, willful, and …
Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health’s announcement that it intends to start work on a permanent version of the Title 8 COVID regulation raises several questions. Stakeholders at a …
There are 24 new workplace fatalities under investigation, 16 of them reported as COVID related. By comparison, in the same period, there were 11 homicides, 8 in the Los Angeles …