When an employee reports a workplace injury, a common instinct is to notify the insurance carrier and let the claims process take over from there. That instinct is incomplete. It skips what happens in the first hours and days after…
Employers outside agriculture, construction, and a short list of other named industries have generally assumed California’s toughest heat rules simply do not apply to them. That assumption is about to break. Cal/OSHA released a substantially revised discussion draft on August…
Employers often assume a workplace safety citation gets easier to fight once nobody was seriously hurt. That is backwards under California’s Serious Accident-Related citation framework. Under Labor Code § 6432, Cal/OSHA does not need to show that an actual injury…
Many employers believe that once the Workplace Violence Prevention Plan is written, trained on once, and filed away, the compliance obligation is finished. It is not, and treating it that way is exactly how a good-faith effort turns into a…
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