Here is the status of SB 410 and other occupational safety and health bills. Many were scheduled for hearing this week. SB 410 was introduced by Senator Connie Leyva (D-San …
After clearing its final regulatory hurdle – the Office of Administrative Law – Cal/OSHA’s new lighting requirements for agricultural operations conducted after sunset will see their sunrise in less than …
Cal/OSHA’s recently published “placeholder” permanent regulation to protect employees from wildfire smoke is much like the emergency regulation that expires September 22nd. There are numerous minor changes, but none are …
In case you missed it (and it was certainly easy to miss), the governor this summer signed a bill that, among many other things, prods Cal/OSHA about its pending revisions …
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 …
Representatives of the residential framing and roofing industries are pushing back against what they say are “significant errors” in the economic impact assessment concerning Cal/OSHA’s proposed six-foot fall protection trigger …
Even though the regulatory front was relatively quiet in 2018, it was nonetheless an eventful year for California’s occupational safety and health community. Here’s a look at the top stories …