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10 (In)frequently Asked Questions About Workplace Safety

Written by John M. Williams Typically, lawyers only get questions after legal problems arise. What do I do now? What are my rights? How can I defend this? The best questions often go unasked. This isn’t to suggest that the best question is the most complex. The best are those that, if answered, prevent rather than minimize…

What brings OSHA to your doorstep?

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) has jurisdiction over more than 100 million workplaces. Since OSHA cannot possibly inspect all of these workplaces, it has established a system of inspection priorities for itself. The following are situations which trigger an OSHA inspection, listed in order of the priority that OSHA places upon each category:…