SB 1. which would prohibit California environmental and safety standards from falling below baselines from 2016, and which would allow private citizens to enforce state standards under specific circumstances, has …
An advisory meeting was convened by the Division of Occupational Safety and Health to receive input from stakeholders concerning the regulation of outdoor employees’ exposure to wildfire smoke. A bill …
The Division of Occupational Safety and Health has cited a Bay Area construction contractor because two workers were exposed to the spores that cause Valley Fever. Cal/OSHA cited the employer …
As Cal/OSHA moves to create an emergency regulation to protect outdoor workers from wildfire smoke, a Southern California assemblyman is working on mandating it. AB 1124 by Assemblyman Brian Maienschein …
The California legislative season is still on simmer, but three new bills of interest to the occupational safety and health community have found their way to the statehouse. AB 457, …
45 COR 40-8067 [¶22,877] REPORTING WORK-CONNECTED INJURIES – REPORTING WORK-CONNECTED FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § 342(a) (2018) – An employee did not contract Valley Fever …
Among the many hazards residents, responders and recovery workers face during California’s destructive wildfires is the potential exposure to Valley Fever. Recently a Ventura County woman related the experience of …
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed AB 1790, which mandates the California Department of Public Health to conduct an awareness campaign to help prevent Valley Fever. It was one of three …