Governor Gavin Newsom destroys Cal-Osha, who is supposed to protect California workers. Instead, he destroys the agency by refusing to fill the positions. Similar attacks took place under Brown. The California AFL-CIO-TOP bureaucrats have completely silent about the destruction of this agency and the threat to health and security of California workers
Cal/Osha underaffing continues – disadvantageous effects that have been tightened by Newsom budget reduction
Dear colleagues:
The latest Cal/Osha personnel data published by the Department of Industrial Relations (Dir) is on April 30th. You routinely keep the publication of personnel information for three to four months after they were generated by Cal/Osha.
Other high CSHO vacancies on May 1, 2025
The Lates data indicate that the rate of the CSHO -open positions in enforcement units is 39% (110 vacancies in 281 fully financed and authorized CSHO positions).
The disadvantageous effects of this year's subjugation can be seen most clearly at the level of the district offices in which enforcement activities take place:
· 12 Distct Offices (enforcement) have CSHO empty rates of more than 40% – nine district offices have vacancy rates over 50% with a high of 86%.
· Four regions have regional CSHO empires over 40%region 1 (SF), Region 3 (San Diego), Region 4 (LA) and region 8 (Central Valley);
· Three district offices did not have any district manager – Fresno High -Härt; Santa ana PSM/non-refinery; and Santa Barbara – the effectiveness has a disadvantage;
· Five district offices have no administrative employee – American canyon; Fresno high danger; Fresno Letf; Santa Ana; And Santa Barbara – has a disadvantageous effect on the functions.
In the Los Angeles area, which deals with the cleanup and reconstruction from the wild boys in January 2025, Cal/Osha district offices have significant CSHO positions that undermine their ability to react to complaints from employees, and accident reports: van Nuys (58%Csho-Freustlust), Monrovia (56%) (45%) (45%), and Long Beach (40%).
DOSH website information inaccurate and unreliable
You publish a page on the Cal/Osha website for setting and setting, which delivers consistently inaccurate and unreliable data.
The Cal/Osha website claimed that the HR department on April 30, 2025 – the same date as the organizational diagram just published – stated that Cal/Osha “enforcement” had a vacancy rate of 16%. A hand count of CSHO positions in enforcement offices on April 30 of the organizational diagram of a vacancy rate of 39%.
In January 2025, the Cal/Osha website claimed that the job offers “enforcement” were 31% if the hand count from position to position documented a vacancy rate of 44%.
Dirs “Cooking of the Books” by Cal/Osha -UNDER SAUTION is included by managers and administrative employees – not only the critical inspectors of enforcing field enforcement – into the “enforcement” category, but also without the department for security management (PSM) of asserting assertiveness (PSM) with CSHO positions of more than 50%.
By enlarging the pool of non-Csho positions without enforcement units with high CSHO-open job offers-provides you with inaccurate data that hides ongoing CSHO-open areas.
The results of the state examination show the paralyzing effects of the continued pedestal
The Auditor of the California state published a highly critical report on the performance of Cal/Osha on July 17, 2025. The examination showed how numerous complaints and incidents by employees who led to serious injuries to employees were simply not examined by the enforcement offices of Cal/Osha. In the inspections carried out, the auditor found that many enforcement measures were incomplete, did not follow standard protocols, and led to punishments for employers who violated state laws that were lower than the agency's guidelines and procedures.
In view of the now years of interruption of Cal/Osha field inspectors, it is not surprising that the state examiner has found that Cal/Osha cannot fulfill his legal mandate or his mission, which can be protected in California 19 million workers.
Chronic CSHO -open areas have created an enormous pressure on district managers and CSHOs themselves in order to open and close, close and close as many superficial inspections as possible as possible, to open and close in order to keep step with the constant symptoms of employee complaints and the employer accident reports.
One possibility of how district managers can handle CSHO-open places is to “invalidate” legitimate complaints from the employee that should be examined and not to categorize the injuries to employees despite clear state law. As a result, the number of “letter examinations”-the on-site inspection has included and enable the district managers to conclude complaints from employees after employers claim that they have increased state law in recent years.
In June 2025, Cal/Osha reported his performance statistics for the last full calendar year (2024) compared to the previous year. Cal/Osha opened 7% fewer inspections compared to 2023 in 2024 and made 19% fewer quotes in 2024. Employer punishments went back dramatically with the fewer inspections and quotations. In 2024, only 41% of the complaints of employees and employer accident reports were examined by an inspection on site-59% were “letter examinations” that did not include any activity on site.
Cal/Osha performance undermout it through CSHO -open areas
The latest personnel data show that only two of the 171 filled CSHO positions were held by industrial hygienists. Industrial hygienists have a special training to carry out “health inspections” such as warmth, forest fire smoke, chemical, lead and silica exposures, noise and ergonomics. The lack of qualified staff for this type of inspection means that Cal/Osha cannot offer an effective and complete protection of the employee.
The recent personal data showed that only 20 out of 171 CHOS flowing languages than English, which is severely restricted by the effectiveness of health and security in a state in which more than 5 million employees speak or only other languages. For example, the asset employee of the Agricultural Safety Unit includes three bilingual inspectors among the six members, while regions 2 and 8 have only one bilingual inspector in the central.
Newsom follows Trump's lead in reducing enforcement financing
The current financial year 2025-26 began on July 1st. Governor Newsom's budget approved by the democratic majority legislation reduced funds for Cal/Osha conformity of $ 16 million. This is a reduction of 10.3% compared to the 2024-25 financial year. With this trump-like reduction in employee protection, all disadvantageous effects of chronic intensions will be difficult to overcome.
The funds of Cal/Osha do not come from state income, but above all from the independent, self-financing “OSH Fund”, which rates a very low surcharge for the remuneration insurance premiums for employer employees. The OSH fund has carried out surpluses of $ 200 million in the last financial years. There is no financial reason to reduce the resources of Cal/Osha for the enforcement.
The California employee H&S protection measures among neighboring countries dramatically lower than the neighboring countries
The standard measure for the international health and security protection authorities of employees is the relationship between inspectors and employees. The International Labor Organization (IAO) recommends 15,000 workers for advanced industrialized countries a ratio of 1 inspector.
The state of Washington has a ratio of 1 inspector to 28,000 employees, while the state of Oregon has a ratio of 1 inspector to 23,000 workers. The state of California has a ratio of 1 inspector to 106,000 workers. This state data comes from the report “Death on the Job” created by the AFL-CIO. The hand number of Cal/Osha positions in the latest organizational diagrams documents a ratio in California from 1 Inspector to 112,000 employees.
With the chronic CSHO vacancies and now the 16 million US dollars for the CAL/OSHA enforcement, the 19 million workers in California will have even less protection than before.
But why don't the workers of California earn the same protection as the workers in the state of Washington and Oregon from their state governments?
Best, Garrett Brown