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June 7, 2023
A federal appeals court has rejected an Ohio construction company’s claims that OSHA unfairly cited it for safety and training violations after a 2018 incident where a crane arm fell and struck a worker, holding that the agency’s allegations were supported by “substantial evidence” and that the employer had “fair notice” of the claims against it.
The California state Senate has passed a controversial bill to require employers to include workplace violence-prevention measures in their existing employee-safety plans -- an effort driven by dissatisfaction with the pace of California OSHA’s (Cal/OSHA) rulemaking to establish a first-time workplace violence prevention standard for sectors outside healthcare.
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