While perhaps we don’t refer to them as New Year’s resolutions, setting yearly goals is something that most businesses do, or should be doing to reduce risk. Strong, established safety goals are extremely important for the success of any organization’s safety program. Moreover, much like our personal resolutions, it’s hard to know where to begin and what our...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has upheld multi-employer citations in its jurisdiction. At issue was whether OSHA had authority to cite a general contractor at a multi-employer worksite for exposing contractors to hazardous conditions, even though the general contractor's own employees were not exposed to the hazards. OSHA had issued citations...