Looking Back and Moving Forward
2020 was a year of unprecedented circumstance. The COVID-19 pandemic has swept across the world and left uncertainty, tragedy, and loss in its wake. At Quantum Compliance, we share in the agony and hardship and [...]
OSHA Issues Regional Emphasis Program for Poultry Industry
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a regional notice on January 25, 2016 aimed at increasing worker health and safety in the poultry industry in Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri. The notice came from [...]
OSHA Small Business Exemptions Changed
In late January of 2016, OSHA updated their list of industries that have certain occupational injury and illness rates below the national private sector rate of 1.7, as part of the North American Industry Classifications [...]
5 Proposed OSHA Fines and What They Mean for You
Safety + Health magazine’s “OSHA Roundup” for the week of December 7, 2015 lists seven new OSHA fines that have been proposed this week. Most of these fines have to do with problems that safety [...]
Safety Audits: Why Do They Matter?
When OSHA conducts a safety inspection, you don’t want them to find any surprise safety failings. For this reason, a companies should always hold safety self-audits. Although OSHA does not mandate these audits, the inspector [...]