It has been approximately two years since the Department of Labor announced its “Plan/Prevent/Protect” compliance strategy, with the basic goal to “ensure employers and other regulated entities are in full compliance with the law every day, not just when Department inspectors come calling.” We thought that it would be interesting to take a quick look
May 2012
D.C. Circuit Vacates Recordkeeping Citations as Outside Statute of Limitations
By Bradford T. Hammock on
Posted in OSHA Enforcement
Vacating citations issued by OSHA for violations of the Occupational Safety and Health Act’s recordkeeping requirements, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has held that the citations were untimely and barred by the Act’s six-month statute of limitations. Click here for a full discussion of the decision.