Tagged in: Standards Board

Engineered Stone Revision Adds New Requirement

Cal/OSHA’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health has revised its draft language to implement an emergency ban on the fabrication and manufacture of engineered stone. The Division is accepting comments today on the changes. The emergency regulation would prohibit the manufacture and fabrication of artificial stone slabs or panels containing at least 1% crystalline silica. … Read More »

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Settlement In 2019 Fatality

One of the three employers Cal/OSHA cited in an April 2019 workplace fatality has settled its case, concluding the matter. Gluck Development Co., based in Calabasas, will pay $5,560 (19%) of the $28,910 proposed in a crane collapse in Oxnard that killed a worker for Concreative Construction Co. The Ventura County District Attorney’s office prosecuted … Read More »

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New Elevator Rules

Fourteen years of ups and downs in the quest to update Cal/OSHA’s Elevator Safety Orders have come to an end with the Standards Board’s adoption of the Group V ESO. Once the state Office of Administrative Law approves it and sets an effective date (likely January 1st, 2027), the long-running regulatory effort will make it … Read More »

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Autonomous Ag Talks to Restart

Cal/OSHA Standards Board chair Joseph Alioto, Jr., formally requested that staff restart the dormant advisory committee studying whether and how to revise Cal/OSHA’s regulations on autonomous agricultural vehicles. Staff responded by scheduling a meeting for December 1st—the specific time and venue to be determined. The committee has met several times, most recently in August 2025, … Read More »

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Tweaking Workplace Violence Standard

The Cal/OSHA Standards Board has a statutory deadline of December 31st of this year to adopt a new standard on workplace violence prevention in general industry, as mandated by 2024’s SB 553. It is unclear if the standard can be adopted by the end of the year, but the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, … Read More »

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Petition Seeks Reduction in Wood Dust PEL – a 50% Drop

Biochemistry student Sourish Mukherjee has offered a trifecta in his quest to reduce exposure to wood dust at construction sites. In his latest petition to the Cal/OSHA Standards Board, the University of California, Riverside activist student has asked the Board to lower the permissible exposure limit (PEL) for wood dust by 50%—from 2 milligrams per … Read More »

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