California employers will soon have to prove, under penalty of perjury, that workplace safety and health hazards have been corrected before receiving any penalty modifications, and even while they are contesting the citations in an appeals process.
Governor Jerry Brown signed A.B. 1634 into law on Sept. 20, 2014.
The new law also requires employers to fix the most serious hazards cited by the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) more promptly, and allows employers to delay correcting a cited hazard only during a first appeal.