On January 7, 2026, the California Occupational Safety and Health Appeals Board (Appeals Board or OSHAB) convened in Sacramento, California, for a stakeholders’ roundtable discussion to gather ideas for enhancing and improving Board processes and procedures. The meeting was attended by OSHAB members, administrative law judges, Cal/OSHA attorneys, members of Ogletree Deakins’ Workplace Safety and Health Practice Group—Karen F. Tynan, Michelle Henson, Kevin D. Bland, and Adam J. Crane—labor advocates, safety professionals, and OSHAB staff.

Quick Hits

• On January 7, 2026, OSHAB hosted a roundtable discussion with stakeholders to exchange ideas on changing and improving Board processes and procedures.
• Several key members of Ogletree Deakins’ Workplace Safety and Health Practice Group attended the meeting and provided input.

A variety of topics were discussed at the stakeholders’ roundtable, with invitations to provide commentary and suggestions, including feedback on the following subjects:

• improved practices and procedural rules regarding party status;
• improved access to OSHAB decisions, including via OSHAB’s web page and online services, such as Westlaw and LexisNexis;
• amendments to procedural rules, including requests from workplace safety attorneys that there be more robust rules related to the disclosure of expert witnesses and new rules with deadlines for amending citations; and
• amendments and clarifications to discovery rules and motions to compel (these were...

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