Business Case for Safety Inspections
We’ve talked about how our software can improve the quality of your safety inspections, but why should that be important to you? Let’s put our software’s features aside for the duration of this article and [...]
We’ve talked about how our software can improve the quality of your safety inspections, but why should that be important to you? Let’s put our software’s features aside for the duration of this article and [...]
When representatives from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration conduct their regular safety site inspections, they are looking for full compliance with all federal safety regulations. This is a simple enough requirement; all worksites ought [...]
Although it’s easier to avoid thinking about potential health and safety inspections and the steps you’ll need to take to be prepared in the case of a regular OSHA visit, ignoring the reality of a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
American companies have benefited from artificially low fines over the past 25 years, during which time OSHA has not raised its fines according to inflation. On the other hand, all of the increases will not [...]
Under the Occupational Safety & Health Act of 1970 (the OSH Act), OSHA review committees are permitted to “issue an order, based on findings of fact, affirming, modifying, or vacating [a] citation or proposed penalty, or [...]
On December 11, OSHA issued a set of 6 citations to the Coca-Cola distribution warehouse in Monmouth Junction, New Jersey, levying several fines that totaled $61,600. There were four repeat violations and two serious ones, all of which [...]