State safety board fast-tracks an emergency rule to protect countertop fabrication workers from incurable lung disease.

A “silicosis dashboard” run by the California Department of Public Health shows that as of May 22, 562 workers have contracted the incurable disease from working with artificial stone in the state, ...

California workplace safety regulators approved an amended petition to ban fabricating engineered stone, kicking off the ...

Elevator problems continue at an affordable housing complex in Fresno, where elderly and disabled residents say they are once ...

California workplace safety regulators want to completely ban kitchen quartz countertops because they are linked to an ...

California regulators advanced a proposal to ban artificial stone countertops linked to silicosis from toxic silica dust, ...

Cal/OSHA recently issued a revised draft of its general industry workplace violence prevention standard, offering the clearest indication yet of ...

Sources and documents reveal that Cal-OSHA was impeded in its Esparto explosion investigation by Cal Fire despite efforts to resolve the conflict.

A chemical tank emergency in Garden Grove is triggering questions about the effectiveness of state and regional regulatory agencies.

California employers can expect several developments from Cal/OSHA this year. Stricter lead exposure limits, enhanced confined space protocols and new training recordkeeping requirements all took ...