How much your local OSHA inspector knows about occupational safety and health may depend mostly on where you’re located.
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Tags: Government Accountability Office, OSHA inspector, state OSHA
Is OSHA good or bad for the U.S. economy? A new study gives the agency a boost, at least when safety and health inspections are conducted at random.
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Tags: CAL-OSHA, journal Science, OSHA help or hurt businesses, random safety inspections
Companies have the right to require OSHA to get a warrant before allowing a safety and health inspection. But once OSHA has a warrant, continuing to prevent an inspection can be costly.
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Tags: All-Feed, OSHA inspection, warrant, YouTube
When it comes to an OSHA inspection, it does matter who the inspector is.
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Even without a combustible dust standard, OSHA can fine companies for failing to provide appropriate fire and explosion protection from combustible dust.
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Tags: combustible dust, fire and explosion, hearing conservation program, permissible exposure limits, respirators
A worker at a grocery store fell 11 feet onto a concrete floor and suffered broken bones and head trauma. Instead of calling 911, store management lifted the worker into a wheelchair and pushed him to a dock to wait for a relative to take him to the hospital.
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Tags: broken bones, emergency services, employee fall, General Duty Clause, head trauma, Market Basket, repeat citation
A man who posed as a government inspector to extort tens of thousands of dollars from construction companies has been sentenced to prison.
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Tags: extortion, fake inspector, OSHA inspection, prison sentence
Like Sammy Hagar, you may not be able to drive 55. But no matter how quickly you’d like to get where you’re going, chances are you’ll stay well under 100 the next time you’re on the open road. The question is why.
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A supermarket is facing OSHA fines after an inspection found night shift employees were locked in and not allowed to leave the building without the employer’s permission.
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Tags: employees locked in, locked exits, Mermaid Meat Co., obstructed exits, supermarket, Triangle Shirtwaist fire
A newspaper has investigated reports about working conditions at an Amazon.com warehouse that serves one-third of the country. Employee claims point to extreme indoor heat, closed doors when it was hot, work rates that couldn’t be sustained and firing threats when workers couldn’t keep up in the heat.
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Tags: Amazon, closed doors, extreme heat, firing threats, heat index, heat stress, Integrity Staffing Solutions, OSHA inspection, paramedics, The Morning Call
