Category: OSHA Inspections
By Andrew Sommer, Eric Conn, and Beeta Lashkari On February 25, 2021, Superior Court Judge Ethan Schulman officially ruled on two requests for preliminary injunctions against the implementation of Cal/OSHA’s COVID-19 emergency temporary standard (ETS), denying the injunctive relief sought in both cases. Two separate legal challenges to the… Continue Reading “Cal/OSHA’s COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard Survives Two Legal Challenges”
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Category: Cal/OSHA, COVID-19, Employment Issues, Judicial Decisions, OSHA Enforcement, OSHA Inspections, OSHA RulemakingTags: Andrew Sommer, Beeta Lashkari, Cal-OSHA, Cal/OSHA, California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, Conn Maciel Carey, COVID-19, COVID-19 Emergency Rule, COVID-19 ETS, Eric Conn, National Retail Federation, OSHA, Preliminary Injuction, Western Growers
Posted on January 7, 2021
by Theresa Green
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As the Trump Administration hands over the keys to President-Elect Biden and a new Democratic Administration, OSHA’s enforcement and regulatory landscape is set to change in dramatic ways, from shifting enforcement priorities, budgets and policies, to efforts to reignite OSHA’s rulemaking apparatus. Following an… Continue Reading “Conn Maciel Carey’s 2021 OSHA Webinar Series”
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Category: Cal/OSHA, COVID-19, Employment Issues, Environmental Issues, Government Program, Hazard Communication, Healthcare Industry, Injury & Illness Recordkeeping, Judicial Decisions, Labor and Union Issues, MSHA Issues, OSHA Enforcement, OSHA Enforcement Inspections, OSHA Inspections, OSHA Rulemaking, OSHA Webinars, Process Safety Management, Retaliation, Special Emphasis Programs, SVEP, Uncategorized, VOSH, Whistleblower Enforcement, Workplace ViolenceTags: Aging Workforce, Attorney-Client Privilege, Biden, Cal/OSHA, California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, Chemical Safety Board, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 Taskforce, CSB, E-Recordkeeping, Election, Electronic Recordkeeping, Emergency Temporary Standard, Employee Discipline, ETS, General Duty Clause, OSHA, OSHA Enforcement, OSHA Enforcement Update, OSHA Settlements, Personal Protective Equipment, PPE, Privileged Audit, Privileged Investigation, Process Safety Management, PSM, Reporting Rule, Rulemaking, Sec. 5(a)(1), Section 5(a)(1), Self-Audit Policy, Whistleblower
By Conn Maciel Carey’s COVID-19 Task Force California increased its efforts to combat COVID-19 over the July 4th holiday weekend by deploying multi-agency strike teams to visit or otherwise make contact with businesses to evaluate and enforce compliance with and/or educate them about the State’s… Continue Reading “California Governor Deploys COVID-19 “Strike Force” Over Holiday Weekend to Enforce Workplace Restrictions”
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Category: Cal/OSHA, COVID-19, Government Program, OSHA Enforcement, OSHA InspectionsTags: Cal-OSHA, California, California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, COVID-19, Exposure Control Plan, Governor Newsom, Strike Force
By Conn Maciel Carey’s COVID-19 Task Force As we previously reported, in early April, the Head of Cal/OSHA, Division Chief Doug Parker, provided feedback about Cal/OSHA’s COVID-19 Recordkeeping and Reporting expectations. The signal to employers back then was that Cal/OSHA would be following Federal OSHA’s guidance on… Continue Reading “Cal/OSHA Establishes a Presumption of Work Relatedness in new COVID-19 Recording and Reporting Guidance”
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Category: Cal/OSHA, COVID-19, Injury & Illness Recordkeeping, OSHA Enforcement, OSHA InspectionsTags: Cal-OSHA, California, California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, Conn Maciel Carey, COVID-19, Injury & Illness Recordkeeping, Injury and Fatality Reporting, Injury and Illness Recordkeeping, Injury Reporting, Presumption, Presumptive, Recording, Recordkeeping, Reporting, Work Relatedness, Work-Related
Posted on January 28, 2020
by Eric J. Conn
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By Lindsay A. DiSalvo, Dan C. Deacon, and Eric J. Conn This is your yearly reminder about the important February 1st deadline to prepare, certify and post your OSHA 300A Annual Summary of workplace injuries and illnesses, for all U.S. employers, except those with ten or fewer employees… Continue Reading “REMINDER: February 1, 2020 Deadline to Prepare, Certify, & Post OSHA 300A Annual Summaries of Work-Related Injuries: 5 Common Mistakes Employers Make”
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Posted on September 6, 2019
by Theresa Green
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By Andrew Sommer and Megan Shaked The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) just announced major changes to the definition of “serious injury or illness” for purposes of California employers’ duty to report certain serious workplace injuries to Cal/OSHA. Pursuant to Cal. Labor Code Sec. 6409.1(b), in… Continue Reading “BREAKING: Cal/OSHA Overhauls Reporting Requirements for Serious Injuries”
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Category: Cal/OSHA, Injury & Illness Recordkeeping, OSHA Inspections, OSHA RulemakingTags: Andrew Sommer, Cal-OSHA, California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, Conn Maciel Carey, Fatality and Injury Reporting, Fatality and Serious Injury Reporting, In-Patient Hospitalization, Megan Shaked, Overnight Hospitalization, Reportable Hospitalization
Posted on July 11, 2019
by Eric J. Conn
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By Lindsay A. DiSalvo and Beeta B. Lashkari When OSHA receives a complaint related to worker safety and health or a severe injury report, one action by OSHA is to give the employer an opportunity to respond before it takes the more extreme action of opening an… Continue Reading “Responding to OSHA 11(c) Retaliation Charges, Employee Safety Complaints, and Rapid Response Investigations”
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On May 28, 2019, Andrew J. Sommer, Eric J. Conn and Megan S. Shaked of Conn Maciel Carey LLP‘s national OSHA Practice presented a webinar regarding: “Key Cal/OSHA Issues California Employers Must Track.” The state of California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, better known as Cal/OSHA, is perhaps the most aggressive… Continue Reading “Key Cal/OSHA Issues California Employers Must Track [Webinar Recording]”
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Category: Cal/OSHA, Injury & Illness Recordkeeping, OSHA Enforcement, OSHA Inspections, OSHA Rulemaking, OSHA Webinars, Workplace ViolenceTags: Andrew J. Sommer, Cal/OSHA, California, California Appeals Board, California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, Conn Maciel Carey, E-Recordkeeping, Electronic Recordkeeping, Eric J. Conn, Indoor Heat Illness, Megan S. Shaked, Wildfire Smoke, Workplace Violence
Posted on January 31, 2019
by Theresa Green
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On February 12, 2019 Lindsay DiSalvo and Dan Deacon from Conn Maciel Carey LLP’s national OSHA Practice presented a webinar regarding: “Updates About OSHA’s E-Recordkeeping and Significant Injury Reporting Rules.“ OSHA’s controversial E-Recordkeeping Rule has been challenged and criticized by stakeholders since its inception, and finally, in January 2019, the Trump Administration… Continue Reading “2019 Update on OSHA’s E-Recordkeeping and Significant Injury Reporting Rules [Webinar Recording]”
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Category: Cal/OSHA, Injury & Illness Recordkeeping, OSHA Enforcement, OSHA Inspections, OSHA Rulemaking, OSHA WebinarsTags: Conn Maciel Carey, Dan Deacon, E-Recordkeeping, Electronic Data Submission, Electronic Injury Data Submission, Electronic Recordkeeping, Eric J. Conn, Fatality and Injury Reporting, Fatality and Serious Injury Reporting, Fatality and Significant Injury Reporting, Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses, Lindsay DiSalvo, OSHA
Posted on November 26, 2018
by Theresa Green
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We are now two years into the Trump Administration, and we have seen a mixed bag of changes in the OSHA enforcement and regulatory landscape. We have watched some late Obama-era OSHA rules get repealed by the Congressional Review Act or delayed and amended… Continue Reading “Announcing Conn Maciel Carey’s 2019 OSHA Webinar Series”
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Category: Cal/OSHA, Employment Issues, Environmental Issues, Government Program, Hazard Communication, Injury & Illness Recordkeeping, Labor and Union Issues, OSHA Enforcement, OSHA Inspections, OSHA Rulemaking, OSHA Webinars, Process Safety Management, Special Emphasis Programs, Whistleblower Enforcement, Workplace ViolenceTags: 11(c), 2019 OSHA Webinar Series, Beryllium, Cal/OSHA, Conn Maciel Carey, E-Recordkeeping, Electrical Safety, Electronic Recordkeeping, Eric J. Conn, Exposure Standards, Health Standards, Joint-Employer, Notice of Alleged Hazard, OSHA, OSHA Inspections, OSHA Webinar Series, Process Safety Management, PSM, Retaliation, Silica, Site Specific Targeting, Subpart S, Walking Working Surfaces