Posts Tagged ‘OSHA’
OSHA Steps Up Its Covid Fines
Well this is nothing to sneeze at: OSHA inspectors just threatened the owner of a Massachusetts tax preparation firm with a $136,000 fine for prohibiting her employees from wearing masks on the job. It’s the largest fine OSHA has ever proposed for poor COVID-19 practices, and far larger than anything we saw during the Trump…
Read MoreOSHA on Covid Compliance at Work
The Occupational Health & Safety Administration has published guidance on how companies should mitigate the spread of covid in the workplace — and wouldn’t know it, the material looks an awful lot like a compliance program. The document was published on Friday and should be no surprise; the Biden Administration had made clear that OSHA…
Read MoreOf Whistleblower Hotlines and Anti-Retaliation Programs
One of the most slippery tasks for any compliance officer is measuring the effectiveness of your program. And we all know one of the go-to metrics that compliance officers use, even if many secretly wonder how informative that metric really is. We speak, of course, about “hotline statistics.” Just last month, Convercent and Ethisphere published…
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