Employers who expose their workers to serious safety and health hazards and who continue to defy worker safety and health regulations will be subject to an enhanced OSHA enforcement policy.

Employers who expose their workers to serious safety and health hazards and who continue to defy worker safety and health regulations will be subject to an enhanced Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) enforcement policy.

OSHA’s Enhanced Enforcement Policy will focus on those employers who have received “high-gravity” citations, issued when an employer’s violations are considered to be at the highest level of severity. The policy targets five areas: follow-up inspections; programmed inspections; public awareness; settlements; and federal court enforcement.

The initiative affects establishments that have received OSHA citations with the highest severity of willful violations; multiple serious violations at the highest level of severity; repeat violations at the originating establishment; failure-to-abate notices; and a serious or willful violation associated with a fatality. See www.osha.gov.