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Retail Workplace Health & Safety

    OSHA: Occupational Safety and Health Administration

    Low-Hazard Retailers

    Retailer Responsibilities

    • Retailers who fail to maintain adequate OSHA standards may incur citations.closed image by Lombok from Fotolia.com

      To comply with the health and safety standards set forth by OSHA, all retailers, including those classified as low-hazard, must adhere to certain rules and regulations. These include maintaining safe equipment, providing medical exams, training employees in OSHA requirements, displaying OSHA poster 3165 ("Job Safety and Health: It's the Law"), not retaliating or discriminating against employees who exercise their OSHA rights, displaying citations at or near the workplace, resolving cited violations within the given time frames, participating in survey requests from OSHA or the Bureau of Labor Statistics, reporting accidents that result in any fatalities or in the hospitalization of three or more employees and any fatalities, and record keeping and reporting requirements.

      Employers who fail to maintain these standards can find themselves on the receiving end of disciplinary action by OSHA.

    Noncompliance Penalties

    • Fines can be hefty for retailers who don't take OSHA requirements seriously.cash image by Pix by Marti from Fotolia.com

      Most OSHA fines are imposed on businesses that employ the use of heavy machinery. Lock out and tag out violations, as well as crane and gantry standards, will quickly incur the wrath of OSHA. However, retailers failing to take OSHA standards seriously can easily fall under the "General Duty Clause," which is an all-encompassing term for OSHA violations that may not fall under any specific category.

      OSHA fines for businesses that are non-compliant have ranged from $7,000 to $87,000.

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