California Code of Regulations
Title 8 - Industrial Relations
Division 1 - Department of Industrial Relations
Chapter 3.3 - Occupational Safety and Health Appeals Board
Article 3 - Prehearing Procedure Discovery, and Motions
Section 374 - Prehearing Conference

(a) At any time before a hearing, upon motion of a party or upon its own motion, the Appeals Board may notice and order a prehearing conference for the purposes of simplifying the issues, expediting a hearing and affording parties an opportunity to participate in the disposition of the appeal. The prehearing conference may be conducted by means of a telephone conference call.

(b) Each party to a prehearing conference shall be prepared to discuss the issues, stipulate to any factual or legal issue about which there is no dispute, stipulate to the identification and admissibility of documentary evidence, comply with any request for discovery, report on discovery status where the ALJ has compelled discovery prior to the prehearing, and to do such other things as may aid in the disposition of the proceeding.

(c) The failure of a party or its representative to prepare for and participate in the prehearing conference shall be grounds for the imposition of such sanctions, inferences or other orders, then or during the hearing, as the Appeals Board may deem appropriate. These sanctions may include striking or excluding evidence offered by the non-complying party on that dispute, or precluding that party from contesting the position or information on that issue provided by the complying party.