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Cal/OSHA Investigating Scary Garden Grove Incident

Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health has begun its investigation into the near failure of a pressurized tank containing a highly flammable liquid used to manufacture plastics at Garden Grove facility. DOSH’s investigation began as the incident unfolded. The Department of Industrial Relations confirmed that the investigation is underway, but did not provide any … Read More »

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Cal/OSHA’s Tentative Steps on Engineered Stone Ban

Those hoping the Cal/OSHA Standards Board would act urgently on rulemaking to ban the fabrication and installation of engineered stone in the Golden State were poised to be disappointed by the Board’s decision on the petition, announced on May 15. It was voted on yesterday in Los Angeles. But instead of what critics described as … Read More »

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May Revise: Dollars for Data

The May revise, the state legislature’s response to the governor’s January state budget proposal, contains no changes to the Cal/OSHA program itself but provides additional funding for the agency’s quest to create a modern data system, both internally and for the regulated public. Where exactly that project, which was initiated in 2002, stands at this … Read More »

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New Workplace Violence Revisions

Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health revised its draft regulation on general industry workplace violence prevention. The Division is accepting comments on its latest iteration of General Industry Safety Orders §3343 until June 1st. What happens next is the question. For the time being, DOSH is enforcing workplace violence prevention requirements through the California … Read More »

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BOI’s 2024 Report

Cal/OSHA’s Bureau of Investigations has published its 2024 annual report, bringing the Bureau up to date on public release of its legislatively mandated annual reports. The report is over a year late. More reporting is due. The 2025 report was to have been submitted by the Division of Occupational Safety and Health to the Department … Read More »

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Bill Would Hand BOI Powers Over to D.A.s

At last August’s legislative hearing on the results of a critical audit of Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, Assemblyman Liz Ortega (D-Hayward) expressed special ire over the performance of the Bureau of Investigations (BOI). “When do you decide to hold an employer accountable,” following a workplace fatality, she asked DOSH Chief Debra Lee, … Read More »

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Fatalities Drop, or Did They Really Rise?

The delayed data from the 2024 Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries has finally been released. It shows 419 workplace deaths in California, a 5% drop from 439 in 2023. But when you remove the 30 fatalities attributable to “intentional self-harm,” versus the same adjusted figure from 2023, something curious is revealed. The 2024 purely work-related … Read More »

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Cal/OSHA’s Controversial ‘Walkaround’ Rule

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