PASADENA – Richard Negri, occupational safety and health representative for Service Employees International Union, (SEIU), admits the union was able to obtain the latest draft of regulatory language on protecting …
SACRAMENTO – The Division ofOccupational Safety and Health is currently holding a series of meetings with stakeholders on a new standard to protect healthcare workers from assaults. The meetings have been …
41 COR 40-7105 [¶22,364R] INJURY AND ILLNESS PREVENTION PROGRAM (IIPP) – PROCEDURES FOR CORRECTING UNSAFE CONDITIONS Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § 3203(a)(6) (2014) – Employees were exposed to assaults …
The Assembly Appropriations committee is poised to decide the fate of AB 1634, the latest version of legislation that would mandate employers abate alleged safety violations and alleged dangerous conditions while …
A Cal/OSH Appeals Board administrative law judge has upheld a citation against an Alameda County psychiatric hospital for an ineffective Injury and Illness Prevention Program due to continuing workplace violence. …
41 COR 40-7071 [¶22,327] INJURY AND ILLNESS PREVENTION PROGRAM (IIPP) –PROCEDURES FOR CORRECTING UNSAFE CONDITIONS Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § 3203(a)(6) (2014) – The Division established that employees were …
California workplaces suffered two serious incidents of workplace violence in the past week. On Nov. 1, a worker at a high-rise in Los Angeles’ Koreatown was critically injured when he …
A 16-year-old employee of a Lamont recycling center who might have been working with false identification was killed after being overcome by fumes, and two others fell ill, with one …