Workplaces are hazardous places, and keeping your employees safe is not only the law, it could cost you if you don’t. Citations by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration can carry maximum fines ranging from $13,260 per serious violation up to $132,598 per violation for willful and repeat violations, according to the 2019 OSHA penalties that took effect Jan. 23.
Violations most often cited last year were in fall protection in construction work, according to a preliminary OSHA list, but a newcomer on the list was eye/face protection in the same field.
