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The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) is a United States federal agency established in 1970 by the Occupational Health and Safety Act. OSHA is part of the Department of Labor and is charged... more +
The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) is a United States federal agency established in 1970 by the Occupational Health and Safety Act. OSHA is part of the Department of Labor and is charged with assuring healthy, safe, working environments. OSHA sets and enforces safety standards and policies. Examples of OSHA's duties include setting limits on workers' exposure to hazardous substances, ensuring workers have access to safety information and protective equipment, and providing employers and workers proper training to prevent dangerous conditions. less -
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Knock Knock, Who's There? OSHA Inspector!

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Effective January 2025, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) hiked the maximum fines for workplace safety violations. As an example, the maximum fine for a “serious” violation is now $16,550 per violation,...more

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OSHA Severe Violator Enforcement Program: 5 Things Employers Should Know

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), like many federal agencies, has finite resources for carrying out its essential functions. It simply isn’t feasible, nor efficient or effective, for OSHA regulators to...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Are Your Exits Clear? Major Retailer Faces Over $15 Million in OSHA Fines as OSHA Enforcement Wave on Exit Access Continues

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Highlighting the current administration’s focus on using press releases to assure workplace health and safety regulations are being followed, OSHA announced that a major retailer who has allegedly continued...more

Butler Snow LLP

Long-Term Care Facilities: OSHA Monitors Employer Weekly Reports to CMS

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OSHA is pursuing a new avenue to identify potential employer violations related to COVID-19 employee deaths at long-term care facilities: employers’ CMS data. In May 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

OSHA Reclassifies Citation Based on Employer's Good Faith Efforts to Address the Hazard

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If found responsible for a serious violation of workplace safety standards, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration can assess up to $13,494 per item cited. However, when the citation involves a repeat or...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

OSHA Is Issuing Citations for COVID-19 Infections from the Spring

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Since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, we have been talking about things to do to keep your employees safe and what laws apply in that arena. Recently, OSHA started handing out fines to companies for employee outbreaks...more

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OSHA Proposes Over $1M in Fines Against Florida Roofing Contractor for Egregious Fall Hazards

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Seyfarth Synopsis: The Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Florida Roofing Experts Inc. – a Jacksonville, Florida, roofing contractor, for failing to protect workers from falls at two work...more

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Indiana Considers $100,000 Fine for Workplace Fatalities

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Indiana GOP lawmaker and Chamber of Commerce join forces to support a bill to require a penalty for workplace fatalities of $100,000 per employee killed. House Bill 1341, authored by GOP lawmaker Martin Carbaugh, was filed on...more

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With Penalties On The Rise, It's Time For Employers To Clean House Before OSHA Arrives

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For the first time in twenty-five years, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fines have increased significantly. In particular, last fall Congress enacted legislation that required all federal agencies to...more

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Does Your Company Have "Reasonable" Procedures for Employee Reporting of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses Consistent with...

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OSHA’s May 12, 2016 final rule revising its recording and reporting regulations received a great deal of publicity, in large part, because of the new requirements beginning in 2017 for some employers to electronically submit...more

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