Cal/OSHA reports some 40 new workplace fatalities, including more than 30 due to COVID. The non-COVID incidents include: A deadly incident in Thermal involving an employee of the California Highway …
A lawsuit filed by agriculture challenging Cal/OSHA’s recently enacted COVID emergency standard is just starting to make its way through the legal system. There is an injunction pending to halt …
Several California agricultural organizations have issued a major broadside against Cal/OSHA’s emergency temporary standard (ETS) about COVID. The lawsuit is seeking to nullify the ETS entirely or several at least …
Cal/OSHA cited Walsh/Shea Corridor Constructions for a willful-general violation for failing to install a construction personnel hoist (CPH) in an 800-foot excavation. The employer took the matter to the Appeals …
Juliann Sum, who took the helm of the Division of Occupational Safety and Health in 2013 during a time of tumult, has officially retired from Cal/OSHA, during a tumultuous stretch. …
The United Farm Workers union has just upped the ante in its longstanding quest to force even more enforcement from the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) on heat …
A ruling by the California Court of Appeal means that the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) won’t have to spend possibly thousands of hours coming up with some …
The long-running but often-stagnant Harris Construction case might finally get a hearing on the merits of a union writ this November in Sacramento County Superior Court. Division of Occupational Safety …