Despite all attempts to put the COVID-19 public health emergency in the rearview mirror, the virus is not entirely gone, and the pandemic was not long ago, at least in the law’s long.
federal standards specifically to protect workers from heat elseness and your organization is asking osha, occupational and safety health association to enact emergency heat standards. what would you like to see? that s right. i mean farm workers are absolutely on the front lines of climate change here. men, women and children who are doing incredibly physically demanding labor and truly dangerous temperatures, and they re too often afraid to speak out, or just take a break, whether it is because of fear of retaliation, or just because of the level of poverty that some of these farmers live under, and they re trying to work as much as they can to make ens meet, so we absolutely need osha to step up here, we need the emergency temporary standards and we are talking about basic things, access to shade, access to water, a right to take a break when needed and lifesaving basic things that any human needs when doing strenuous activity in these outdoor activities and
California Office of Administrative Law approved California Division of Occupational Health and Safety’s Cal/OSHA COVID-19 Prevention Non-Emergency Regulations. Cal/OSHA’s COVID-19 Prevention Emergency Temporary Standards expired, Non-Emergency Regulations went into effect.
California is an epicenter of environmental policymaking and often a harbinger of laws and regulations adopted throughout the country, and there’s no reason to think this will change in.
As COVID-19 continues to linger in California, it remains an ongoing concern for state lawmakers. In response to this ongoing threat, California continues to provide updated regulations.