What’s Next on PSM Reg?
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Will Refinery Regs Apply to Chemical Plants?
Cal/OSHA Standards Board chair Joseph Alioto has suggested that, in the wake of the near-disaster at a chemical plant in Garden Grove earlier this year, the agency needs to rethink how it approaches such incidents. “The pattern here is a formal accident followed by developing new regulations,” he said recently. “We need to be doing …
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Here’s Cal/OSHA’s Engineered Stone Ban Draft
Once the Cal/OSHA Standards Board votes on its proposed emergency regulation to ban the fabrication of engineered stone, such activities would be prohibited two months after the effective date established by the state Office of Administrative Law. That’s the upshot of draft language recently released by the Division of Occupational Safety and Health. DOSH is …
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Standards Board Roundtable
The Cal/OSHA Standards Board is inviting stakeholders to attend “roundtable discussions” on how to improve its operations. The meetings are scheduled for October 6th in Sacramento and October 20th in Los Angeles. Executive Officer Millicent Robinette explains the rationale: “To fulfill our strategic plan of improving transparency, efficiency and accountability,” the Board is soliciting feedback …
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Standards Board Rejects Lawsuit Inspired PSM Changes
The Cal/OSHA Standards Board has unanimously rejected proposed regulatory revisions to the Process Safety Management standard for refineries, General Industry Safety Orders §5189.1. The proposal would have revised the standard’s …
Wildfire Smoke Changes Sept 19, 2026
Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health will discuss proposed revisions to its wildfire smoke requirements at a Zoom-only meeting on September 22nd. The revisions are mandated by 2022’s AB 2243. The main change would reduce the air-quality index threshold for mandatory use of respirators. But the change would not require a written respiratory protection …
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First-Aid as a Cautionary Tale?
The more than 20-year quest to update Cal/OSHA’s requirements for employers’ first-aid kits raised more than the question of how long it took to modify, figure out, and adopt what should have been a relatively simple set of requirements. It also spotlights the issue of keeping Cal/OSHA up to date on consensus standards. Helen Cleary, …
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