California Rebuts OSHA Findings On State Occupational Safety and Health Plan

The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) Oct. 28 offered a rebuttal to many of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s findings that deficiencies exist in enforcement, training, recordkeeping and other areas within the state’s occupational safety and health program.

The analysis OSHA used in its review of California’s program was flawed, the California department said in its response.

The review of the California program was one of the individual enhanced reviews conducted by OSHA of 25 state programs. The enhanced reviews were prompted by an investigation that found Nevada’s worker safety and health program used poorly trained inspectors ...