Last year Cal-OSHA Reporter did a story about a “regulatory slowdown” at Cal/OSHA, with the fewest public hearings before the Standards Board in memory in 2018. That changed in 2019, …
Although it found several areas for improvement, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has many positive things to say about Cal/OSHA in its latest Federal Annual Monitoring and Evaluation …
A dispute over a Cal/OSHA requirement for temporary flooring on multi-story projects has triggered a petition to the Standards Board by a Sacramento construction company. Even Division of Occupational Safety …
The California Legislature has approved its first occupational safety and health-related bill, sending it to the governor. AB 1804 aims to clean up an unintended consequence of a 2014 bill …
The long-running dispute over whether an East Bay transit company has to provide heat illness protection for its bus drivers has run a little bit longer than anticipated but might …
Stakeholders weighed in at a Standards Board public hearing on a proposal to replace the Title 8 operator training, qualification and certification standards for cranes and derricks in construction with …
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 …