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Safety advocacy groups calling for stronger worker protections

Despite fewer workplace fatalities, advocates warn of dangers

May 22, 2015

Kyle W. Morrison

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Despite the downward trend in workplace fatalities, safety advocates are calling for stepped-up efforts to protect workers.

Does ‘shaming’ employers work?

May 15, 2015

Kyle W. Morrison

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A duct manufacturer has been slammed with nearly $1 million in OSHA fines, the agency recently announced in a press release. Does that matter to you?

Perez: VPP and SHARP are important

March 19, 2015

Washington – Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez voiced his support for OSHA cooperative programs, as well as the need to increase the agency’s penalty limits, during a March 18 House hearing on the Department of Labor’s budget request for fiscal year 2016.

OSHA's Top 10 most frequently cited violations

OSHA's Top 10: The more things change ...

OSHA may implement new rules and enforcement changes, but the agency's list of the Top 10 most frequently cited violations stays the same

November 23, 2014

Kyle W. Morrison

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Safety+Health presents a look at OSHA’s most cited violations and largest penalties for fiscal year 2014. Also: A Q&A with the deputy director of OSHA’s Directorate of Enforcement Programs.

Is Canada on the right track with its workplace penalty system?

August 2, 2013

Kyle W. Morrison

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If you think OSHA penalties are too low, realize that they could be far lower, as is the case with our neighbors to the north.