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Nov 4, 2016

Cal/OSHA Amends its Definition of “Repeat” Citation to Reconcile Differences from the Federal Program

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In August 2015 Cal/OSHA published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding Repeat citations. The purpose of the amendment was to make California’s “Repeat” violation classification more consistent with Federal enforcement standards by eliminating the “current geographic restrictions” for issuing a “Repeat” citation, and recalculating the starting time for calculating the look back period for a “Repeat” violation. The final Repeat Regulation rule was recently adopted and will be effective on January 1, 2017.

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