A dispute over a Cal/OSHA requirement for temporary flooring on multi-story projects has triggered a petition to the Standards Board by a Sacramento construction company. Even Division of Occupational Safety …
The Division of Occupational Safety and Health has released the “discussion draft” of its potential permanent regulation to protect outdoor workers from wildfire smoke ahead of an August 27 advisory …
The California Legislature has approved its first occupational safety and health-related bill, sending it to the governor. AB 1804 aims to clean up an unintended consequence of a 2014 bill …
The Cal/OSH Appeals Board has approved dozens of settlements in Cal/OSHA citation cases, including several involving fatalities. Other settlements are significant because of the injuries involved or the dollar amounts …
There have been four recent workplace fatalities, although three could turn out to be from natural causes. One that was clearly work-related was in Sacramento, where a roofer for Valley …
There have been three recent workplace fatalities that are of undetermined origin as we go to press. DOSH is working to determine work-relatedness. In Bakersfield, a laborer for Sharper Landscaping …
A state-mandated economic impact assessment of Cal/OSHA’s proposed revisions to the lead standard concludes that the revisions would cost California industry hundreds of millions of dollars in the first year …
California’s Office of Administrative Law quickly approved Cal/OSHA’s emergency standard to protect outdoor workers from wildfire smoke exposure. The regulation, General Industry Safety Orders §5141.1, took effect July 29. The …