Dollar General first to be added to Severe Violator Enforcement Program

• OSHA widened the scope of the Severe Violator Enforcement Program to include any type of company that willfully or repeatedly violated safety standards.
• Dollar General was the first company to be added to the list.
• Since January 2017, OSHA has inspected more than 270 Dollar General stores and reported 111 instances of workplace safety violations.
• The agency has imposed more than $15.5 million in penalties during that period.
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Nevada updates inspection plans

• Nevada OSHA has updated its Programmed Inspection Plan.
• Industries with high injury and illness rates result in time away from work, restricted job roles, or permanent transfers to new positions.
• Employers that have received a comprehensive inspection within the last three years are excluded from the Programmed Inspection Plan.
• The updated inspection plan also includes several National Emphasis Programs that were previously adopted by Nevada OSHA.
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Roofing contractor faces massive penalties

• Security-Luebke Roofing Inc. – one of Fox Valley, Wisconsin’s largest roofing general contractors – allowed a roofing subcontractor to expose workers to potentially deadly falls at an Appleton worksite.
• An inspector with the department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration observed at least nine workers employed by JJ Roofing Co. of Kaukauna in October 2022 exposed to fall hazards.
• Security-Luebke faces $140,633 in proposed penalties for one willful violation of federal fall protection requirements.
• In addition, OSHA cited JJ Roofing for not training its workers on fall protection equipment and its safe use, the same violation for which the agency cited the company in 2018 and 2020. JJ Roofing faces $28,126 in proposed penalties.
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OSHA adds industries to Combustible Dust NEP Program

• OSHA  issued a revised Combustible Dust National Emphasis Program in late January 2023.
• The purpose of the revised emphasis program is to continue OSHA inspections of facilities that generate or handle combustible dust likely to cause fire, flash fire, deflagration, and explosion hazards.
• OSHA initiated the Combustible Dust NEP in October 2007 after many combustible dust incidents resulted in numerous fatalities and serious injuries.
• Industries recently added to the program consist of commercial bakeries, printing ink manufacturing cut stock, resawing lumber, and planning, leather and hide tanning and finishing, truss manufacturing and grain and field bean merchant wholesalers.
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