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Unprecedented Action & Removed Activists re Indoor Heat Reg
The Cal/OSHA Standards Board, despite being directed to remove the indoor heat illness prevention regulation from its scheduled vote today, in an unprecedented action, unanimously approved the standard anyway, leaving …
Norcal Lost its Only BOI Investigator
Cal/OSHA’s Bureau of Investigations (BOI) will have no personnel in Northern California following the resignation of Julio Alfaro, a senior investigator who was the lone BOI representative in the north …
Cal/OSHA’s Publishes Workplace Violence Prevention Model
SB 553, California’s new workplace violence prevention law, becomes effective in just a few months for California’s non-healthcare employers. Cal/OSHA has published a model program to help employers gear up before enforcement on July 1st. Law firms and employer organizations have been scrambling to put out their own versions ahead of the implementation date. Senator …
The ‘New Guy’ Meets Cal/OSHA
If you’re reading this, you probably know more about Cal/OSHA than me. That’s awkward since I’m Cal-OSHA Reporter’s new journalist covering Cal/OSHA, and it’s me who is supposed to be telling you what’s going on. If I had a business card, my title probably would be “The New Guy.” That’s how I’ve been introduced in …
Is Narcan Coming to First-Aid Kits?
Regulatory and legislative efforts involving Cal/OSHA may lead to an overdose prevention tool becoming a required item in employers’ first-aid kits. The National Safety Council has petitioned the Cal/OSHA Standards Board, asking for it to require construction sites and other workplaces to stock medication that reverses the effects of a drug overdose. And a new …
Gary Warth, Our New Guy
vCal-OSHA Reporter is pleased to announce the addition of Gary Warth, who has joined Providence Publications after a decades-long career as a journalist in San Diego County. After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism with a minor in sociology from San Diego State University, he worked as a reporter and later editor for a chain of …