Fed OSHA Raises Red Flags Over Cal/OSHA Resources, Lapse Time In Inspections

Federal OSHA has come out with a highly critical annual report on California's closely watched state OSHA plan that complains the program lacks adequate field resources to address the range of concerns in the state's workplaces and raises issues with the lapse time between inspections and citations -- again raising the specter of a dispute between the agencies over what constitutes an “at least as effective” state plan.