Posts By: Greg Nelson

Cal-OSHA Offers Employers Heat Illness Prevention Resources

Cal/OSHA is making resources and material available to assist employers with complying with California’s newly-revised Heat Illness Prevention Standards that went into effect on May 1, 2015.  New eTools have been made available, including: An English version of a sample Heat Illness Prevention Program An English Health Effects of Heat Poster for the agricultural industry. …

Problems With Your Health Plan? Or Your FLC’s Plan?

Are you wondering if your company’s health benefits are in compliance with new Affordable Care Act rules? Do you work with a farm labor contractor (FLC) whose benefits sound a little too good to be true? If you think that doesn’t matter for your business, you should think again. Either way, you need to know ...

The Drought, Weather and Crop Insurance

As California stretches through its fourth year of a shortage of significant rainfall, farms are struggling to find solutions for their water needs. Although deep wells may provide temporary supplies of water to many agricultural entities for the coming year, as more water is pulled out of groundwater supplies, those resources will become strained and ...