Proposed fines for compliance citations can run as low as $50.00 per violation and in some instances

Proposed fines for compliance citations can run as low as $50.00 per violation and in some instances, to over $ 2,197,000.00 (2 Million dollars.)

Here is something to think about - If you never correct a cited condition, and OSHA returns to your facility and discovers your omission (as they will if you don’t file your abatement documentation), OSHA will cite you for failure to abate the violation.

Failure-to-abate penalties are calculated at a maximum of $7,000 for each day past the abatement date that the violation remained uncorrected, up to a maximum of 30 days. You read that right: Proposed fines for failure-to-abate citations can run as high as $210,000 per violation. Worse, no reductions to the fine are allowed—and no good-faith reductions are allowed for any violation in an inspection that uncovers a failure-to-abate violation.

Avoid ‘Repeat’ Citations If you correct a cited condition but it recurs within 3 years (for example, if you put guards on machinery and submit your abatement documentation but then workers remove the guards before the next OSHA inspection), you will be cited for a repeat violation. You can also be cited for a repeat violation if a violation that is “essentially similar” to the previously cited violation is uncovered. For example, if you were cited for failing to place covers on dip tanks in one area of the facility, and you correct that but install new dip tanks in a different area and leave them uncovered, OSHA can cite it as a repeat violation.

Repeat citations carry a base penalty of $70,000 per violation. Reductions in the penalty are permitted only for small employers.

Of course, while it’s important not to be cited twice for the same violation, the best thing is not to be cited once.

Take a Good Look at the above Violations.

Now, ask yourself this, “Why am paying outrageous prices for furniture?”

Are you confused about OSHA and compliance laws? Here are the facts!

On 1/29/2015 Ashley Furniture Industries (Just in Arcadia, Wisconsin alone) Was fined by Osha in the amount of $ 1, 766,000.00 for OSHA Violations. Then, Ironically enough, not even 8 months later

On 8/27/2015 Ashley Furniture Industries, (Just in Whitehall, Wisconsin alone) Was fined by Osha in the amount of $431,000.00 for OSHA Violations.

We as consumers sometimes complain about how high “prices” are for most everything we purchase.

(example: Modular Sectional Sofa $5,999 - Ashley Furniture)

2,197,000.00 in Workplace Safety OSHA fines......just in 2 Counties of Wisconsin can answer that for you.

Remember what Yogi Berra once said, "Ignorance isn't what you don't know, it's what you know wrong." That being said, This inability to accept the most trivial shifts from our predefined notions is what leads to inescapable happenings...or accidents. Although we often forget that accidents are inevitable, we must strive to work proactively to prevent such accidents because:

• Employees could be injured, costing your company tens of thousands of dollars in fines, insurance claims and medical expenses.

• Fines could be issued, costing your company tens of thousands of dollars in litigation, and legal fees, and

• YOU could go to Jail, for up to six months and in not so rare cases....longer, if criminal charges are brought against you.

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