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Workplace safety and OSHA compliance counsel that helps you build defensible safety programs, manage incident investigations, and contest OSHA citations and injury claims.

A safety program is both the right thing to do and your best defense when something goes wrong. We help employers meet their obligations under OSHA, stand up safety programs that hold up under inspection, and respond fast when an incident or citation puts your operation in the regulator's sights. The work is practical and built for the floor, not just the file.

OSHA Compliance Programs

OSHA sets both general duty obligations and detailed industry-specific standards, and the gap between them is where employers get caught. We help you interpret which standards apply to your operation, build written programs and training that satisfy them, and keep the recordkeeping that proves compliance. Getting this right up front lowers both your injury rate and your citation risk.

Incident Investigations

How you investigate a serious injury or fatality shapes everything that follows, from the OSHA inspection to any later litigation. We guide internal investigations to capture the facts while protecting privilege where it applies, manage the OSHA inspection on site, and advise on reporting obligations and the timelines that govern them so deadlines do not become a second problem.

Contesting Citations

An OSHA citation is not the final word. We evaluate the alleged violations and proposed penalties, advise on whether to contest, and represent you in negotiations with the agency and in proceedings before the review commission. We also defend the workplace injury claims that often follow, coordinating the safety and litigation strategy so the two do not work against each other.

Frequently asked questions

At a minimum, you have to provide a workplace free of recognized hazards, follow the OSHA standards for your industry, keep injury and illness records, post the required notices, and report severe injuries and fatalities within the deadlines. You also can't retaliate against an employee who raises a safety concern.

An inspection typically runs through an opening conference, a walkaround, employee interviews, a document review, and a closing conference. You have rights along the way: to accompany the inspector, in some situations to require a warrant, and to respond to any citations within the stated deadlines.

You can fix the hazard and pay the penalty, ask the area director for an informal conference to discuss it, or formally contest the citation before the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission. If you want to contest, you have to act within 15 working days of receiving the citation, or it becomes final.

OSHA requires training across many hazards, including hazard communication, personal protective equipment, lockout/tagout, confined spaces, fall protection, and a range of industry-specific standards. The training has to be in a language your workers understand, and you need to document it, because in an inspection undocumented training is treated as no training.

The pieces that matter are visible management commitment, real worker participation, systematic hazard identification, hazard prevention and control, training, and ongoing evaluation and improvement. OSHA's recommended practices lay out this framework, and following it both reduces injuries and gives you a defensible record if a citation comes.

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