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 …
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 …
More than six years after a state law mandated action, the Cal/OSHA Standards Board has published a rulemaking proposal to update Title 8 on firefighters’ personal protective equipment. The existing …
A Title 8 rule on construction personnel hoists (CPHs) that hasn’t kept up with a national consensus standard has led to “inconsistent interpretations and citations from Cal/OSHA inspectors,” according to …
Based on five sets of citations issued since 2013 that is says were not corrected, Cal/OSHA has hit Petersen-Dean, Inc., with willful citations for fall protection violations. The proposed penalties …
For the first time, a California appellate court has applied the common-law theory of “negligent undertaking” to a safety consultancy, allowing the parents of a deceased employee to sue the …
Violations were up, as well as serious violations, for most of the 25 top “most cited” Title 8 standards in 2017, according to data released by the Division of Occupational …