The Department of Industrial Relations is pushing ahead with plans to spend $15 million over three years on an outside media consultant. The total outlay under the contract is more than nine times what DIR spends annually for the employees in its Office of External Affairs (OEA) who are tasked with the same responsibilities. DIR …
In exclusive interviews and written communications with Workers’ Comp Executive former DIR Director Christine Baker responds directly to the State Auditor’s recent critical report. Baker, in her own inimitable fashion goes directly to the relevant points. This story can’t be found anywhere else – and we include links to the full text of the Auditors …
Employers are trying to stop a bill that would exempt Cal/OSHA regulations from undergoing the Standard Regulatory Impact Analysis (SRIA), a crucial economic analysis. SRIAs consider the cost impact of a proposed rule on the entire state economy and its workforce, as opposed to just a single industry. SRIAs also bring sunshine –– public awareness …
Sea World lawyers tore into Cal/OSHA Compliance Safety and Health Officer (COSHO) Darcy Murphine in an effort to impeach her testimony in an injury case that it largely won in …
44 COR 40-7833 [¶22,690] INJURY AND ILLNESS PREVENTION PROGRAM (IIPP) – EFFECTIVE IIPP Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § 3203(a) (2017) – Employer failed to establish an IIPP containing all …
Fed-OSHA has determined that allegations of improper use of Division of Occupational Safety and Health are unfounded. A complaint filed by a former Cal/OSHA inspector who the Department of Industrial Relations describes as a disgruntled ex-employee created the expensive kerfluffle. “According to our investigation, it has been determined that the alleged misuse of Federal OSHA …
Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed budget for the next fiscal year includes a boost for the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) to increase staffing. It largely holds the line for the rest of the Department of Industrial Relations. Overall expenditures by the department are proposed to climb to $620 million next year from $608 …