Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating four recent workplace fatalities, with three of them of unknown origin and possibly from natural causes. The only confirmed work-related death …
New Division of Occupational Safety and Health Chief Douglas Parker has been on the job for almost four months, and is settling in, getting to know his workforce, and reaching …
Twenty nineteen is in our rearview mirror and 2020 is now in focus. It is sure to be an eventful year for California’s occupational safety and health community. But before …
Two more California workers have died from falls in recent days. In Southern California, 32-year-old Tim Staples, a volunteer for the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department search-and-rescue team, died during …
Why did Cal/OSHA drop all citations and $94,000 in penalties against a personnel company in a serious injury incident? Why did repeat-serious charges stick against another company in another accident …
Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating a workplace fatality in Southern California. In Gardena, an employee of Ghanooni Construction was electrocuted while working in an attic at …
A Southern California employer is facing almost $900,000 in Cal/OSHA penalties following the deaths of two employees and the illnesses of three other workers. They developed silicosis from years of …
Employers and the Division of Occupational Safety and Health have come to agreement on hundreds more citation cases. Here are some of the most significant such settlements, including three fatality …