OSHA increases civil penalties to adjust for inflation
Posted On: Jan. 3, 2018 10:46 AM CSTThe U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s civil penalties for workplace safety violations have risen to adjust for inflation, effective Tuesday.
The U.S. Department of Labor published a Federal Register notice on Tuesday outlining the civil penalty adjustments for OSHA and several other of its agencies. The department is required to annually adjust civil penalties under a 2015 law that significantly increased the maximum penalties allowed for violations.
The penalty for willful and repeat violations increased from $126,749 to $129,336. The fines for other-than-serious, serious and failure to abate violations rose from $12,615 to $12,934 per violation.