Governor Appoints Sum as Cal/OSHA DIR Chief

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Juliann Sum is the new chief of the California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA). She was unanimously confirmed on June 11 by the Senate Rules Committee after being appointed by Governor Jerry Brown last December. She has been serving as acting chief since 2013.

Sum was a special advisor to the DIR director from 2012 to 2013 and held several positions at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1994 to 2012, including project director at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and attorney and industrial hygienist at the Labor Occupational Health Program. She was an associate attorney at the Environmental Law Foundation from 1994 to 1995, a litigation associate at Carroll, Burdick and McDonough LLP from 1991 to 1994 and an industrial hygienist and business representative for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1245 from 1979 to 1986.

by Rob Neenan, CLFP President & CEO

 

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