OSHA Assistant Secretary of Labor Dr. David Michaels on Tuesday, June 28, in his address at Safety 2016 outlined some of the agency’s plans.
The agency will increase its maximum penalties for serious violations to account for inflation. The new penalty levels will move the maximum for serious and other-than-serious posting requirements to $12,471 per violation from $7,000, a willful or repeated violation to $124,709 per violation from $70,000 and a failure to abate violation to $12,471 per day, up from $7,000 per day.