The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, better known as Cal/OSHA, has formally proposed a new regulation that would spell out who may accompany agency inspectors during on-site ...

Cal/OSHA inspectors have the final say on which representatives can participate in the inspection. Unlike federal OSHA, Cal/OSHA does not require collective bargaining representatives to show good ...

On July 1, 2026, Cal/OSHA took another step toward implementing a California variation of federal OSHA’s “worker walkaround rule” by posting ...

California workplace safety regulators will integrate the recent Medline warehouse fire in Tracy into an ongoing inspection.

Cal/OSHA has proposed a new “walk-around rule” that could reshape who joins inspectors during workplace safety investigations. The draft regulation would clarify when employees, unions or outside ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California’s worker safety agency is under-inspecting workplaces after accidents and worker injuries, failing to ...

Cal/OSHA says the Medline warehouse fire in Tracy will now be investigated as part of an inspection that was already underway ...

In a review of the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health published Thursday, state auditors found understaffing was a primary factor leading inspectors to skip in-person inspections of ...