Bill Proposes Worker Safety Standard for Lead

A laboratory report showing a California worker has a blood-lead level of at least 25 micrograms per deciliter would mandate the state’s workplace safety agency to initiate an investigation, under a bill filed ahead of the legislative session that started Monday. Assembly Bill 35, by Assemblyman Ash Kalra, D-San Jose, would require the Department of Public Health to notify the Division of Occupational Safety and Health about any lab reports showing a worker to have a concentration of lead in the bloodstream equal to or exceeding the threshold of 25 micrograms per deciliter. The bi...