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Cal/OSHA Board Adopts Emergency Worker Safety Rules For Wildfire Smoke


July 22, 2019 at 05:11 PM
Cal/OSHA’s standards board has adopted first-time emergency rules to protect outdoor workers from wildfire smoke, which employers in California must implement by early August and which could serve as a model for other states that lack such measures and are also experiencing increasing numbers and intensity of fires due in part to climate change.

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