The UFW filed a new lawsuit against California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health alleging continued "systematic failure" to enforce the state's heat illness prevention regulation. The new lawsuit is in addition to a previous heat injury related lawsuit filed by the UFW which is currently pending in the Court of Appeals. Agricultural Employers should be aware of the UFW’s heat injury crusade and the added scrutiny it will undoubtedly bring to Heat Injury & Illness Prevention Plans. The UFW’s actions may also spur increasingly strict enforcement from the agency. The following was detailed in the Cal-OSHA Reporter:
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