Walters: Strengthen Cal/OSHA or Face New Comp Presumptions

California columnist Dan Walters suggested employers need to do more to ensure that the Division of Occupational Safety and Health can enforce workplace safety rules if they don't want lawmakers creating work comp presumptions to compel compliance. A bill awaiting action by Gov. Gavin Newsom would presume that heat injuries are compensable when the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board determines that an employer violated heat safety standards adopted by the Division of Occupational Safety and Health. AB 1336, by Assemblymember Dawn Addis, D-Morro Bay, is nearly identical to a bill New...