In case you missed it (and it was certainly easy to miss), the governor this summer signed a bill that, among many other things, prods Cal/OSHA about its pending revisions …
Among the hundreds of bills passed by California lawmakers at the end of the legislative season are six related to occupational safety and health. In addition to ABs 1804 and …
The latest workplace fatalities include a fall, a caught-between incident and a whole lot of as-yet unknowns. Here’s the week’s update: The fall was in Los Angeles, where an employee …
Doug Parker takes over the leadership of the Division of Occupational Safety and Health at a crucial time. The chief’s position has been vacant, or virtually vacant, for months. There …
Just three months after it cited the Los Angeles Police Department and the city’s Department of General Services overexposing employees to unsanitary conditions – resulting in typhoid fever – the …
The long-running dispute over whether an East Bay transit company has to provide heat illness protection for its bus drivers has run a little bit longer than anticipated but might …
Gov. Gavin Newsom has appointed Lilia Garcia-Brower, 45, as chief of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, a key post at the Department of Industrial Relations, otherwise known as the …
Representatives of the residential framing and roofing industries are pushing back against what they say are “significant errors” in the economic impact assessment concerning Cal/OSHA’s proposed six-foot fall protection trigger …