After a long hiatus due to focusing on the COVID-19 Pandemic, Cal/OSHA is again revisiting an Indoor Heat Illness Standard. The standard is currently under a 45-day Public Comment Period, with the Cal/OSHA Standards Board having a public hearing May 18th, 2023. Barring changes from the public hearing, the standard has [...]
Many GSRMA member agencies are afforded pollution coverage through Public Risk Innovation, Solutions, and Management’s (PRISM) Pollution Program. The Pollution policy is written on a claims made and reported basis. Any known claims and all known incidents that could give rise to a claim must be reported to the company [...]
Common Performance Review Distortions and Retaliatory Decision-Making that Leads to Wrongful Termination and Retaliatory Termination Lawsuits by Patricia Eyres, Managing Partner Eyres Law Group, LLP There are many bases for claims of wrongful termination under California law. The types of claims range significantly and fall into two broad categories: Discrimination [...]
Cal/OSHA has recently released their permanent COVID-19 Non-Emergency Regulation. This regulation has been several years in the making, and has some changes moving forward including: The Non-Emergency Regulation will be in effect for a minimum of 2 years from the effective date of 02/03/23 Records must be maintained for a [...]
Per OSHA injury and illness recordkeeping and reporting requirements, Wednesday, February 1, is the deadline to tabulate your annual OSHA Log Summary (OSHA Form 300A) and post it in a common area where notices to employees are usually posted. This is the summary only (300A), not the OSHA 300 Form. [...]
We understand that circumstances often require employees to use their privately owned vehicles (POV) for business purposes. It is important for employees, managers, supervisors at all levels to understand an employee’s personal automobile policy is the primary coverage for liability and/or damages when involved in an accident while on district [...]
Many public entity risk pools are specialized to a certain sector, such as school districts or local governments. This niche focus is often why those organizations choose to work with a homogeneous risk pool — a pool consisting of only one type of entity. On the surface, it seems like the [...]
The 16th Annual GSRMA Training Conference is a wrap, and after a 2 year hiatus due to COVID-19, we have to say it went off without a hitch! All of the GSRMA Staff were so grateful to get to see and interact with our members again in person, and it [...]
For some, holidays are the happiest times of the year, for others they are the worst time of the year, and for risk management professionals they are truly some of the busiest times of the year. Much of this comes with the winter season bringing wet weather and shorter days, [...]
If you were keeping track of your state government, you probably noticed that this year’s legislative session was busy. There were numerous bills proposed and passed in both the House and Senate, and Governor Gavin Newsom signed many of these into law at the end of September. The new laws [...]