This blog post was originally published in Seyfarth Shaw’s Environmental & Safety Law Update.

California is one of 22 states and jurisdictions that has its own OSHA Plan covering private sector employers.  The federal OSHA law, of course, continues to provide a minimum level of safety, or “floor,” under which these state regulations may not fall.  But above this…
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