First Person Narrative
July 2020
- “July 2020 Stats at DOSH: Crippling vacancies continue as Governor Newsom starts his second full fiscal year,” July 27, 2020
- “PEER speaks out about crisis at Cal/OSHA,” Garrett Brown, July 2, 2020
June 2020
- “Crisis at Cal/OSHA: Crippling vacancies, no net hiring in six months, 18 months after Gavin Newsom became California Governor,” Garrett Brown, June 26, 2020
April 2020
- “Terribly weakened Cal/OSHA facing COVID infections and ‘restart’ hazards,” Garrett Brown, April 30, 2020
March 2020
- Testimony before the California Commission on the Future of Work, March 12, 2020
- Testimony of Garrett Brown
- Testimony of the Labor Occupational Health Program (LOHP), University of California at Berkeley
- Testimony of the National Employment Law Program (NELP)
- Testimony of Worksafe
- “Cal/OSHA inspector vacancies continue to grow; field positions are eliminated,” Garrett Brown, March 11, 2020
January 2020
- “Cal/OSHA starts new year with more inspector, manager vacancies,” Garrett Brown, January 20, 2020
November 2019
- “Another landmine for California’s workers from Christine Baker’s toxic legacy at the Department of Industrial Relations,” Garrett Brown, November 25, 2019
- “Dramatic jump in enforcement inspector vacancies at Cal/OSHA,” Garrett Brown, November 13, 2019
August 2019: “Cal/OSHA gets a new Chief (finally!) – Welcome to Doug Parker,” Garrett Brown, August 16, 2019
July 2019: “Cal/OSHA riddled with vacancies at start of new state fiscal year,” Garrett Brown, July 17, 2019
June 2019
- “Cal/OSHA status at the end of the state fiscal year 2018-19,” Garrett Brown, June 19, 2019
- “Hiring freeze leaves Cal/OSHA with growing vacancies,” Garrett Brown, June 3, 2019
April 2019
- “Cal/OSHA’s ‘Zombie Chief’ needs to step aside, and now, please,” Garrett Brown, April 11, 2019
- “Audit reveals profound corruption – both personal and political – in California’s labor department and political class,” Garrett Brown April 4, 2019
March 2018: Garrett Brown, “Cal/OSHA’s disappearing field inspector positions; What the California Legislature gives, the Brown Administration takes away,” The Pump Handle
September 2017: Garrett Brown, “Cal/OSHA’s disappearing funds – where’s the money?,” The Pump Handle
September 2017: Garrett Brown, “Worker protection or deregulation? The moment of truth for EHS,” Industrial Safety & Hygiene News
September 2017: Kim Krisberg and Celeste Monforton, “The Year in U.S. Occupational Health & Safety; Fall 2016 – Summer 2017”
August 2017: RAND Corporation, “Working Conditions in the United States; Results of the 2015 American Working Conditions survey”
July 2017: Garrett Brown, “California work fatalities and injuries on the rise while millions of dollars of enforcement resources are left ‘sitting on the table’,” The Pump Handle
July 2017: Garrett Brown, “’Refinery Town’ points the way forward to protect communities and defend rights,” New Solutions
June 2017: Garrett Brown, “A well-known secret: The ‘reverse business case’ threatens worker health and safety,” The Pump Handle
March 2017: Garrett Brown, “Labor-Enviro-Community coalition wins stronger California oil refinery regulations and showcases a winning strategy for worker and community health”
February 2017: Garrett Brown and Deeg Gold, “A strategic response to Trump’s ‘ripping off the Band-Aid’ to workers’ health and safety: Defense of the status quo ante is not enough”
January 2017: Garrett Brown, “Refinery Town” points the way forward to protect communities and defend rights”
August 2016: Garrett Brown, “Federal oversight of Cal/OSHA – What is it good for?”
August 2016: Garrett Brown, “Cherry-Picked Data Hides the Toll of Work Injuries in California”
- Blog text
- DOSH Enforcement Staffing Summary Chart – July 2016
- DOSH Bilingual Pay Summary Chart – June 2016
August 2015: Garrett Brown, Letter to the Editor of the Cal/OSHA Reporter
July 2015: Garrett Brown, “DIR Responds to Fed OSHA’s letter on the PEER CASPA”
- Blog text
- Fed OSHA’s June 26th letter regarding the PEER CASPA
- DIR’s response to the Fed OSHA letter on the PEER CASPA Initial Analysis of DIR’s FY 2015-16 BCP
June 2015: Garrett Brown “Two Questions about the DIR BCP”
- Blog text
- May 2015 Summary Chart of CSHOs in the field
- February 2015 Summary Chart of CSHOs in the field
May 2015: Garrett Brown, “Latino worker deaths jump in California”
March 2015: Garrett Brown, “Message to Cal/OSHA Advisory Committee
January 2015: Garrett Brown, “Initial Analysis: DIR’s Budget Change Proposal for Cal/OSHA for California State Fiscal Year 2015/16”
- Text of analysis
- DOSH Enforcement Staffing Summary Chart – February 2015
- DIR’s Budget Change Proposal for state Fiscal year 2015/16
January 2015
- Garrett Brown, “A moment sometimes captures the essence” – web version of the blog text
- DIR December 2014 Event – September 2014 draft program
- DIR December 2014 event – Final program
- DOSH Enforcement Staffing Summary Chart – December 2014
- DOSH Vital Statistics Available during 2014
October 2014: Garrett Brown, “New laws and regs – Great! But who will enforce them?”
- web version of blog text
- September 2014 DOSH Enforcement Staffing Summary Chart
- September 2014 DOSH Staffing by Job Classification
- Text of DIR Budget Change proposal BCP 14-03, Cal/OSHA Unfunded Positions
- Program of DIR December 2014 event
September 2014: Garrett Brown, “One Year After the Coup: Who’s running the show?”
August 2014: Garrett Brown and anonymous DOSH employees
July 2014: Garrett Brown, “DIR’s Micro-Managing and Open Door for Political Favoritism”
- DIR’s Micro-Managing and Open Door for Political Favoritism
- Memo and latest inspection data chart — May 27, 2014
June 2014: Garrett Brown, “Witness to a Coup”
May 2014: Garrett Brown, “Why you should care about Cal/OSHA
April 2014: Garrett Brown, “DIR’s budget shell game”
March 2014: Jack Oudiz, “DOSH: Death by a thousand cuts”
