CHSWC Members Seek More Input in Study Process

Members of a labor-management advisory panel tasked with making recommendations to improve California’s workers’ compensation system would like to be more involved in the studies they regularly commission. The Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation has been discussing system studies and the process through which the state contracts with research organizations for more than a year after members criticized a couple of studies completed in 2021— an analysis of potential exposure to carcinogens for mechanics working on fire trucks and a review of the...