Cal/OSHA says it is finalizing changes to its policies and procedures in the wake of a critical review by the state auditor that found a number of deficiencies in the enforcement program. CAL/OSHA’s comments are part of the required 60-day response to the State Auditor’s findings and recommendations. Here are some highlights of the response: …
After Cal/OSHA cited two rideshare companies in August 2022, as many companies do, they appealed the citations to the Cal/OSHA Appeals Board. San Francisco’s Uber Technologies and Lyft, Inc., argued that Cal/OSHA lacked jurisdiction to issue citations because the drivers who filed the complaints weren’t even employees. The companies also sought to short-circuit the cases …
Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health will reconvene its advisory committee on the general industry workplace violence prevention standard on November 12th in Oakland. DOSH revised the draft language for the proposed language last May. Cal/OSHA already is enforcing WPV prevention through 2023’s SB 553, via Labor Code §6409.1. DOSH is adding language to …
Cal/OSHA has cited two north-state law enforcement agencies in the wake of the death of an officer in March during a drug trafficking disruption operation in Olivehurst. In doing so, the agency has used powers to cite directly from the California Labor Code on workplace violence prevention. The Yuba County Sheriff’s Department faces more than …
DART rates – “Days Away, Restricted or Transferred” – are down in California, according to the 2025-26 High Hazard Industry List, just released by Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health. The list, which follows on the next two pages, is for the new fiscal year, which began on October 1st. The list is established …
It has been an article of faith around these parts that “Cal/OSHA” refers to all of the components of the state program, but a recent note from the communications team at the Department of Industrial Relations throws this assumption into question. In a recent Cal-OSHA Reporter article about the adoption of the Confined Spaces in …
Research by the Workers’ Compensation Research Institute concludes that California’s first-in-the-nation heat illness prevention standard resulted in substantial declines in work-related heat illnesses. The Waltham, Massachusetts-based organization states that data show the standard, General Industry Safety Orders §3395, has decreased the number of work-related cases on hot days by up to 27% in agriculture, 25% …