Overview of Penalties for different OSHA Violations: Cost of Noncompliance to Double!

Why Should You Attend:

You should attend this webinar to learn more about how the budget deal effect’s every employer within OSHA’s jurisdiction and what you can do to minimize your exposure. For over 5 consecutive years, penalties have increased drastically – do you know how what they currently are, more importantly, how to avoid them?

On November 2, 2015, President Obama signed the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 into law. Section 701 of the Budget Act, entitled “Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015”, gives OSHA the go ahead to increase penalty amounts to catch up with cost-of-living adjustments since the last time OSHA’s civil penalties increased in 1990.

Prior to 2015, OSHA penalties had not increased for 25 years. Maximum OSHA penalties may jump as much as about 78 percent next year. For a provision quietly tucked away in budget legislation and not given so much media attention, this deal has the potential of severely hurting businesses; large and small.

Learning Objectives:

• Know the increase amount for each OSHA violation category.
• Identify why the increase in penalties is to occur.
• Define how the increase in penalties came about.
• Describe each type of OSHA violation.
• How the increase penalties impact the employer besides cost only

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Title VII of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015.
• A review of the increase for each type of OSHA violation; Other-Than-Serious, Serious, Repeat, Willfull and De Minimis
• A review of the definition of each type of OSHA violation with examples.
• When the changes take place.
• Past Efforts to Raise Maximum OSHA Penalties

Who Will Benefit:

• Attorneys,
• Plant Managers,
• Plant Foremen,
• Safety Committee Members.
• Engineers,
• Operations Managers,
• Construction Foreman
• Occupational Safety Consultants
• HR Managers,
• General Industry business owners
• Construction business owners
• Plant Supervisors
• Subcontractors,
• Project managers
• Safety Managers

Michael Aust
President and Lead Consultant, OneZeroThreeZero Communications

Mr. Michael Aust, MS, Authorized OSHA Outreach Instructor

Michael Aust, CECM, MS, is an Authorized OSHA Instructor with 24 years of occupational safety training and compliance experience. Mr. Aust has a Master of Science in Occupational Safety, Health and Environmental Management. He served as the management representative for various safety and environmental management systems throughout his 24 year career as an EHS Manager in the private sector. Mr. Aust is a content contributor for a variety of industry membership organizations as well as various safety consultant organizations. Mr. Aust is a published author.

Mr. Aust has provided safety management expertise and regulatory compliance to a variety of industries since 1995. His extensive experience in the safety and health field has been earned from working in various organizations within the private sector. He has developed and implemented safety management systems for organizations without such processes and has helped mature management systems for Fortune 50 and Fortune 100 companies.

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