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 374.2 - Status Conference

(a) At any time before hearing, upon motion of a party or upon its own motion, the Appeals Board may notice and order a status conference to discuss the issues to be presented, the witnesses to be called, the status of discovery requests, pending and contemplated motions, and any other matters that may aid in expediting the hearing or otherwise disposing of the case. The status conference may be conducted by means of a telephone conference call.

(b) The failure of a party or its representative to appear and participate in the status conference may 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.