Inside OSHA

February 17, 2025

Worker-Safety Groups Press Cal/OSHA To Step Up Bird Flu Protections

January 31, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Representatives of several community and employee-safety organizations are pressing California OSHA (Cal/OSHA) to bolster standards and enforcement of rules to protect dairy and poultry workers from the bird flu strains that are spreading in the state. “California has seen an increase in H5N1 [bird flu] cases, and we know that workers at . . . poultry plants are at the forefront of exposure,” said Renee Guerrero, representing the Southern California Coalition for Occupational Safety & Health (SoCalCOSH), during a Jan...

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