It’s almost February, marking the three-month period during which employers must post their Cal/OSHA Form 300A – the summary of workplace injuries and illnesses for 2021. And by March 2nd, employers must electronically post the form to the Fed-OSHA portal. The annual summary, which must be posted in a visible and easily accessible area at …
In the space of a day, the U.S. Supreme Court put a halt – perhaps permanently – to the Biden administration’s COVID vaccine-or-testing mandate for large businesses. And California had a very different outcome. The California Court of Appeal affirmed a San Francisco superior court judge and upheld Cal/OSHA’s COVID emergency temporary standard. The California …
While employers anticipate a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court about the administration’s controversial vaccine mandate, the Cal/OSHA Standards Board has put a potential vote on the California version of …
NOTE: Cal-OSHA Reporter is omitting alleged covid deaths from this section and from its weekly graphics gong forward. There are three new workplace fatalities. They include: The death of a Los Angeles County Fire Department employee who was helping battle a house fire. Firefighter Jonathan Flagler, 47, suffered significant injuries in the fire at the …
As the worldwide pandemic begins to become endemic, Cal/OSHA’s COVID emergency temporary standard was readopted in December 2021 and becomes effective on January 14th, 2022. But what happens in April when it expires – for the last time – is controversial and open to debate. The Division of Occupational Safety and Health says it would …
Lawsuits, injunctions, variants, and regulatory turmoil. It seemed like a COVID year in 2021, or did it just seem like it because of the general media coverage? The rapidly evolving virus dominated the news and kept occupational safety and health professionals scrambling. Or was it Cal/OSHA that kept them scrambling? There were other significant developments …
There were 18 new workplace fatalities reported in the last two weeks of December, eight of them allegedly COVID-related. The others were comprised of two falls, a vehicle encounter, and explosion and six undetermined incidents. The falls were in San Bernardino and Tracy. In the former an employee of Viramontes Express, a mulch supplier, fell …
Cal/OSHA’s controversial emergency regulation on COVID protections in the workplace has been renewed – with some controversial tweaks – and will be in place until April 2022. The board voted 6-1 at its December 16th meeting, with management representative Kathleen Crawford voting no. While acknowledging that the regulation is not “perfect,” labor representatives urged the …