On Friday, April 24, 2026, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board released a revised draft workplace violence regulation for general industry that clarifies the definition of ...

Sources and documents reveal that Cal-OSHA was impeded in its Esparto explosion investigation by Cal Fire despite efforts to ...

California farm groups and ag-tech advocates are urging the Cal/OSHA Health and Safety Standards Board to slow down and rethink its new blueprint for regulating autonomous agricultural equipment, ...

California employers can expect several developments from Cal/OSHA this year. Stricter lead exposure limits, enhanced confined space protocols and new training recordkeeping requirements all took ...

Back in 2021, Governor Newsom signed Senate Bill 606 into law. We noted in our blog post that the law would “broadly expand[] Cal/OSHA’s enforcement authority and the penalty amounts employers may be ...

Assemblymember Liz Ortega, D-San Leandro, has a novel solution for mismanagement and chronic understaffing at Cal-OSHA: Assembly Bill 2321 would “deputize” district attorneys’ offices across the state ...

Governor Gavin Newsom has reshuffled the chairs in a board that has often served as an impediment to scaling up agtech adoption in California. And the change may be paying off for the industry. Joseph ...

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Farmworkers harvest banana peppers at a farm near the town of Helm on July 1, 2025. [Photo: Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local] A new audit from the California State Auditor has revealed ...

State audit reveals chronic understaffing weakened Cal-OSHA enforcement efforts. Cal-OSHA failed to justify skipped inspections in cases involving serious injuries. DIR reduced Cal-OSHA vacancy rate ...