California workplace safety regulators conduct a lower percentage of programmed inspections and take longer to issue citations and respond to worker complaints of unsafe working conditions than their federal counterparts, the U.S. Department of Labor said last month.
David Shiraishi, Oakland Area director of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration, said the agency believes inadequate staffing levels are at least partially responsible for the deficiencies. OSHA identified staffing shortages, largely the result of a hiring freeze in California that lasted from 2011 until July ...
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