OSHA penalties to increase

摘要

OSHA announced that its civil penaltieswill increase by just over 1 percentfor 2019, with a new maximum single-violation penalty for willful andrepeat violations of $132,598. Thepenalty increases adjust for inflationas required by the Federal Civil PenaltiesInflation Adjustment Act of 2015,which initially raised civil penalties by78 percent after over 2 decades withouta penalty increase and mandated annualadjustments each year.