California’s workplace safety agency doesn’t have enough people to protect the state’s workers, said a recent state audit. A review from the California state auditor’s office released Thursday said ...

Five months after a series of explosions cost the lives of seven workers in the small farming town of Esparto, Devastating Pyrotechnics, the company that operated the dangerous fireworks operation, ...

Understaffing at a division of the Department of Industrial Relations' could be undermining protections for California workers, a new report from the California State Auditor found, echoing concerns ...

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 ...

California’s worker safety agency is under-inspecting workplaces after accidents and worker injuries, failing to enforce labor regulations in a way that “may undermine” them because it does not have ...

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 ...

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 ...