One nay and three yeas. Here’s how California’s legislative year concluded on the occupational safety and health front. The summaries tell you what you need to know.

Cal/OSHA has published its annual list of employment sectors with higher-than-average DART rates. Which sectors are in, and what was the target rate?

Cal/OSHA has completed it investigations into fatal workplace incidents earlier this year. Here are the results and what it means for the employers.

Here are the latest fatal workplace incidents from around California.

Five years after a refinery trade group filed state and federal lawsuits against Cal/OSHA’s Process Safety Management reforms, the litigants have reached a settlement. Here’s what the agreement would do and what happens next.

The new occupational safety representative for the Cal/OSHA Standards Board is both a firefighter and a chemistry expert. Meet Derek Urwin.

Fed-OSHA’s Susan Harwood Training Grants for 2024 have been announced. Here are the California organizations sharing in the funding.

Rolling or sliding gates have been the source of numerous fatalities and injuries over several decades. Cal/OSHA has authorized an advisory committee to study reforms that could prevent these incidents. But are the solutions as simple as they seem?

Sometimes, those who petition Cal/OSHA for a Standard have a special interest in economic gain. Here’s one you may find hard to believe.

Here are the latest workplace fatality incidents from around California.

Cal/OSHA aims to adopt permanent revisions to its silica standard to address engineered stone hazards as soon as possible. The latest move is a 15-day notice of proposed modifications that takes it one step closer to adoption. Here are the changes and how you can weigh in on them.

Here are the latest companies to receive safety recognition by Cal/OSHA.

Cal/OSHA and employers have come to agreement on several fatality cases from recent years. Here’s how these cases were resolved.

Here are the latest fatal workplace incidents.

A recent trench fatality is the third such tragedy in California. Here are some of the common mistakes that lead to trench collapses and how to do trenches correctly.

Here are employers recognized by Cal/OSHA Consultation for creating effective Injury and Illness Prevention Programs.

Here are the results of three new Cal/OSHA fatality investigations along with the cites issued.

United Contractors, which represents union-signatory construction contractors in the hazardous underground and heavy civil work, has honored 17 individuals and contractors for their efforts to promote safety on the jobsite. Here’s who they are.

Here are the latest fatal incidents from around California in the last days of August.

BrandSafway is a huge global company focused on scaffolding, shoring systems, and large facility maintenance. It has taken a big step towards certification in Cal/OSHA’s tough Voluntary Protection Program.

Cal/OSHA and several employers settled recently in several fatality cases from as far back as 2016. Here are the results.

A petitioner to the Cal/OSHA Standards Board seeks to add a pictogram to the Title 8 requirement for building exit signs. Here’s what the sign looks like and why the petitioner thinks it’s needed.

After being down to just two investigators in the entire state – and none in Northern California – Cal/OSHA says its Bureau of Investigations is being rebuilt and reimagined. Here’s what’s happening with BOI.

Status conferences in Cal/OSHA appeals are a key part of the process. But the Board thinks it could run smoother; here’s how it’s reforming the system.

As Cal/OSHA picks up its enforcement efforts in the engineered stone industry, it cites nine employers from the same town in the Los Angeles area for allegedly failing to protect their employees from silica. Here’s what the Division says they failed to do.

How did Cal/OSHA investigations and violations cited in the first half of 2024 fare compared to previous years? Here are the latest statistics.

Here are the latest fatal workplace incidents from around California in the second week of August.

Cal/OSHA is bringing a new class of violations into Title 8 – enterprise-wide and egregious violations – along with substantially increased penalties. Here’s what stakeholders are saying about this impending move, and how you can weigh in on it.

Meet Millicent Barajas, the Cal/OSHA Standards Board’s new executive officer.

Cal/OSHA has renewed its emergency standard on silica exposure in the engineered stone industry. Here’s what it has to consider as it crafts the permanent replacement for the ETS.

Here are the latest incidents from workplaces around California from recent days.

A San Diego-area safety professional says Cal/OSHA’s COVID regulation remains an unnecessary burden on employers, asking for it to be rescinded in its entirety. Here’s why the Standards Board said no.

The Cal/OSHA Standards Board held a vote on Fed-OSHA’s long-sought six-foot fall protection rule for residential construction. With the vote, the Board now turns to other areas of construction on this contentious issue.

Here are the latest employers recognized by Cal/OSHA for their – and their employees’ – efforts to promote workplace safety.

Here are the latest fatal workplace incidents.