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Certified Safety Professional and Emergency Medical Technician

100% Everything is great in the safety world until there's a serious event or accident. If you're a safety professional working for a company then you should strive to be constantly improving your health and safety plan. And just remember to DOCUMENT DOCUMENT DOCUMENT. If it's not documented, then it's going to be more difficult to pull those records and prove it in court down the road. Work proactively. Don't be reactive when it comes to improving the safety of your workplace.

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OSHA attorney at Ogletree | helping employers with OSHA inspections, citations, and trials nationwide | CSP | follow me for updates and OSHA defense strategies

If there was no underlying injury, or event, OSHA might say your health and safety plan was just fine! But, if there's an injury - especially a fatality - everything changes! Now, all of sudden, you should have done this, that, and maybe a whole lot more. Welcome to another level of scrutiny! (We encountered this in a matter this week.) But, is this fair? What's right, and compliant, should be right, and compliant, in all circumstances. Wouldn't you agree? However, get ready for OSHA to work backwards. Takeaway: If something goes wrong, you might need to have been MORE THAN compliant. If you don't understand what that means, ask OSHA! But, just remember, could have, should have, is not a legal standard. What controls is the law - end of story! #OSHA #safety

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