2011 edition arrives October 2010.
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Authored by: Ed Foulke, Jr. (Click here to meet the author!)
Fisher & Phillips LLP

Summary:
The Workplace Safety and Health Compliance Manual is the essential guide to understanding the OSHA standards. This book covers topics such as record-keeping requirements, inspections, citations and civil penalties, affirmative defenses, developing a comprehensive health and safety program, and MORE! Using our safety and inspection checklists, you’ll have no trouble staying in compliance. Written by Ed Foulke, Jr., of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and the attorneys at Fisher & Phillips LLP.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Duties and responsibilities
3. The employer’s general duty
4. OSHA recordkeeping requirements – Read this chapter!
5. Some significant standards
6. Inspections
7. Citations and civil penalties
8. Adjudication of citations
9. Procedural and affirmative defenses
10. Criminal penalties
11. Developing a comprehensive health and safety program
12. Whistleblower protection – prohibition of discrimination/retaliation
13. Emergency response and preparedness
A. Required postings
B. OSHA Form 300
C. Reporting fatalities and multiple hospitalization incidents
D. Partially exempt industries from OSHA recordkeeping requirements
E. Safety checklist
F. Inspection checklist
G. U.S. Department of Labor regional OSHA offices
H. Directory of states with approved occupational safety and health plans
I. State Plan Review Commissions/Boards
J. State plan notice of contest timeline
K. Safety and health management systems
L. Emergency action plan
M. Emergency action plan checklist
N. Safety and health policy
O. Model written hazard communication program
P. Time period for filing complaint under whistleblower statutes
Q. Company’s commitment to safety
Index