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Ergonomics Injuries, Part 2: How to Analyze Your Record Review
A records review of ergonomic injuries enables you to figure out what’s causing ergonomic injuries at your workplace. Last week, in Part 1 of this series, I discussed how to perform such a review. Now comes the hard part: translating the data into corrective action. Here’s how to analyze the data and decide on corrective [...]
Ergonomics Injuries, Part 1: How to Do a Record Review
To root out ergonomic injuries you must be proactive. The first step is to do a record review and create a “snapshot” of worker injuries so you can analyze causes and identify trends. We’ll show you how to do an effective records review. We’ve also given you a model form you can use to organize [...]
Having Multiple Facilities Can Lead to Repeat Violations
An OSHA citation is never a good thing. But being cited for a repeat violation is especially serious. In addition to penalties of up to $70,000 per offense, repeat violations can land you on OSHA’s Enhanced Enforcement Program (EEP) hit list and embarrass your company.
Repeat violations don’t happen just at companies that don’t care about [...]
Avoiding OSHA Liability For Retaliation Against Workers
THE PROBLEM
The OSHA law bans “discharging or in any manner discriminating against any” worker because the worker files an OSHA complaint or “exercises any right” under the OSHA law (Occupational Safety & Health Act, Sec. 11(c)). Discrimination can include not just firing and layoff but denial of overtime, reassignment to undesirable shifts, demotion, paycuts [...]
