Workplace safety officials plan to protect employees from indoor heat this summer, but give state prisons more time.
A worker scans items as they move through the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Sacramento in 2018. Photo by Rich Pedroncelli, AP FileState workplace safety officials plan to protect employees from indoor heat this summer. But due to cost concerns, a separate rule is in the works for state prisons that will take more time.
But in an eleventh-hour move the evening before the scheduled vote, the administration withdrew a required fiscal sign-off, saying that the rule could cost the state prison system billions more dollars than the workplace agencies had estimated. That forced the state to miss an administrative deadline at the end of March to implement the rule.
He said he doesn’t anticipate the agency will make further changes to the general indoor heat rule, which has already undergone several revisions since Cal/OSHA began developing it in 2017. Workers’ advocates said they were most interested in seeing the rule on track to become official this summer, but were disappointed to see correctional workers left out.
Both the finance and corrections departments have said only that the labor agency’s estimate — less than $1 million in costs in the rule’s first year — was inaccurate but neither has stated exactly how much they believe it will cost instead.
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