During the first 18 months of its Severe Violator Enforcement Program, the U.S. Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration conducted 288 investigations on employers that have demonstrated indifference to their legal obligations for safety by committing willful, repeated or failure-to-abate violations.In an OSHA white paper about SVEP issued earlier this year, the agency said the program has been successful for its intended purpose of inducing compliance by repeat offenders by putting them on notice that they would be subjected to frequent, targeted inspectio...
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