This story was published Feb 15, 2021 by CalMatters.
California officials gave a nod to Kaiser Permanente’s reputation for efficiency when they recently selected it to help speed vaccine rollout. But a review of worker safety citations shows Kaiser has had its own pandemic troubles, failing to adequately protect its employees early on.
Kaiser Permanente has on multiple occasions failed to provide hospital employees the gear or training needed to protect them from COVID-19, according to 12 citations issued by California’s enforcer of workplace safety laws, Cal/OSHA.
The agency has issued more citations against Kaiser than any other health care employer in California, fining it almost $500,000. In addition, Santa Clara County has separately penalized the hospital for not immediately reporting an outbreak in December.
California nursing home workers died of COVID. The industry failed to tell state watchdogs
Sacramento Bee 2/18/2021 Jason Pohl, Dale Kasler, and Ryan Sabalow, The Sacramento Bee
Feb. 18 A year into the pandemic, California s workplace safety watchdog still doesn t know how many nursing home workers have contracted COVID-19 on the job and died, a Sacramento Bee review of state records shows.
California s health department regularly updates a list of COVID-19 infections and deaths at nursing homes. But only about half of those listed facilities have bothered to report the death to Cal/OSHA, the agency in charge of enforcing worker safety, according to the state records.
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California OSHA Undercounts Workers’ COVID Illnesses, Deaths The agency has been relying on self-reporting to determine the number of COVID cases that have been contracted in the workplace, resulting in severe undercounts that undermine the severity of workplace risk. Jason Pohl, Dale Kasler and Phillip Reese, The Sacramento Bee | February 2, 2021 | Analysis
(TNS) A year after the first COVID-19 case hit California, the state agency in charge of policing warehouses, offices, factories and other workplaces is woefully understaffed and significantly undercounting the number of employees who have fallen seriously ill or died as a result of the coronavirus.
California employers reported only 1,600 serious worker illnesses or deaths to the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, known as Cal/ OSHA, from the start of the pandemic through mid-December, according to data obtained by
‘Major, major problem.’ California failing to track workplace COVID infections, deaths [The Sacramento Bee]
Feb. 2 A year after the first COVID-19 case hit California, the state agency in charge of policing warehouses, offices, factories and other workplaces is woefully understaffed and significantly undercounting the number of employees who have fallen seriously ill or died as a result of the coronavirus.
California employers reported only 1,600 serious worker illnesses or deaths to the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, known as Cal/OSHA, from the start of the pandemic through mid-December, according to data obtained by The Sacramento Bee through a Public Records Act request.