OSHA is telling its investigators: During inspections, watch for workplace policies and practices that could discourage workers from reporting injuries, which could be a violation of whistleblower and recordkeeping rules. Among the policies they’re told to look for: certain types of safety incentive programs.

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Tags: OSHA inspections, Recordkeeping, safety incentive programs, whistleblower

More than one out of every five OSHA inspections result from employee complaints. Is your industry one of the top 10 that generate the most complaints?

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Tags: employee complaints to OSHA, general contractors, injury, OSHA inspections, Recordkeeping, roofing, United States Postal Service, violation of an OSHA standard

Haven’t been inspected by OSHA, or, at least not recently?

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Tags: OSHA Field Operations Manual, OSHA inspections, OSHA inspectors

It turns out OSHA’s newly increased budget comes with some strings attached.

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Tags: low-hazard industries, OSHA inspections, small businesses

Now, if OSHA decides to come to your facility to perform an inspection, it’s much more likely to be comprehensive instead of one just focused on a single problem.

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Tags: construction industry, general industry, OSHA inspections

OSHA is two-thirds of the way through the federal 2009 fiscal year. How are inspections stacking up this year?

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Tags: ASSE, high incident rates, OSHA inspections

For the first time in 15 years, OSHA has revised a manual that guides its field officers in making inspections. It may have been written for inspectors, but the document contains a lot of useful information for companies, too.

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Tags: OSHA Field Inspection Reference Manual, OSHA Field Operations Manual, OSHA inspections