A 225-page proposal by the Cal/OSHA Standards Board is essentially non-substantive and would have little to no cost. So, what’s the point, and why a years-long effort to make this …
The author of the bill mandating the long-stalled indoor heat standard is furious that a fiscal impact review is holding it up. She wants to exempt Cal/OSHA regulations from the …
Several petitions are winding their way into the regulatory process. And they’re quite interesting. Gold mines and construction hoists are two. The oldest operating gold mine in the United States …
A Los Angeles project’s huge tunnel boring machines need maintenance and inspection, but also needs to keep the tunnel face pressurized. Here’s how the construction company and Cal/OSHA have worked …
The Cal/OSHA Standards Board issued what amounts to a split decision on Western States Petroleum Association’s petition to revise the Process Safety Management standard, an attempt to forestall pending litigation. …
Cal/OSHA’s long-awaited update to its regulation on personal protective equipment used in firefighting was described as a “monumental step forward” and “groundbreaking” in a public hearing by the Standards Board. …
There is a new bill in the California Legislature. AB 701, by Assemblyman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego), takes aim at quotas for warehouse employees – most particularly Amazon. It would …
Ostensibly aimed at “egregious and flagrant” COVID-19 violations among employers, a new bill in the California Legislature would ratchet up Cal/OSHA penalties for willful violations by allowing the agency to …