Category: February 2023 Newsletter

In 2022 alone, OSHA cited businesses for 4,401 Lockout Tagout and Hazard Communication violations… that’s an average of over 12 violations PER DAY! Prevent future fines by developing and enforcing robust Hazard Communication and Lockout Tagout programs. In addition to ensuring a safer workplace, effective safety programs can decrease workplace…

The share of Black or African American workers fatally injured on the job reached an all-time high in 2021, increasing from 11.4% to 12.6% of total fatalities in 2021. Deaths climbed to 653 in 2021 from 541 in 2020, a 20.7% increase. The fatality rate increased from 3.5 in 2020…

Workplace stress may soon join them as a new hazard that OSHA will use the General Duty Clause to address. The agency issued a bulletin in November addressing workplace stress and mental health hazards in a way that appears to indicate it views them as under OSHA’s purview. The regulated…

Was earning a certification one of your professional development goals for 2023? Apply to take our CSD and MSP Beta Exams! Beta exams are new versions of the MSP and CSD certification exams that are opened to a smaller audience before being available to the general public. When you take…

After all, no employer wants to be cited for safety violations or, worse yet, placed in OSHA’s Severe Violator Enforcement Program. As stated above, this program has become much broader than it was in the past. The program, which will continue to focus on repeat offenders, now includes violations of…

After losing momentum under the Trump administration and making its share of mistakes throughout the pandemic, OSHA has spent much of 2022 flexing its regulatory muscles. Consider that, so far in 2022, it has started emphasis programs and enforcement efforts targeting warehouses, heat illness, COVID-19, and trenching violations. At the…

Federal OSHA updated its site-specific targeting (SST) inspection program to use Form 300A injury and illness data that are more current than what was used in the program’s previous iteration. OSHA’s previous SST inspection program used Form 300A injury and illness data from calendar years 2017 through 2019 for targeting…