Cal/OSHA Readies Rule To Toughen Fines, Citations Under 2021 Statute

California OSHA (Cal/OSHA) is beginning a rulemaking process to toughen its enforcement policies by creating new citations for “enterprise-wide” and “egregious” violations, and substantially hiking potential monetary penalties on companies -- steps mandated by a 2021 state law but which the agency is only now preparing to implement. “Notably, these proposed changes are similar to Federal OSHA’s Corporate Wide Settlement Agreements, and Cal/OSHA takes the position that enforcing enterprise-wide and egregious violations is necessary to ensure that California’s enforcement program...