Insight & Commentary on Occupational Safety & Health Issues
In a memorandum to Regional Administrators, OSHA’s Director of Enforcement Programs (DEP) has set forth the criteria for employers to be removed from the Severe Violator Enforcement Program (SVEP). The memorandum stems from a review of the SVEP undertaken by DEP in fiscal year 2011.
Under the memorandum, an employer may be removed from the SVEP after…
It has been several months since OSHA unveiled its Severe Violator Enforcement Program (SVEP), which focuses OSHA’s enforcement resources on employers "who have demonstrated indifference to their OSH Act obligations by committing willful, repeated, or failure-to-abate violations." This is the time for employers to ramp up their safety and health efforts to ensure that they do not become a…
OSHA has just announced that its Severe Violator Enforcement Program (SVEP) is effective June 18th. The SVEP “concentrates resources on inspecting employers who have demonstrated indifference to their OSH Act obligations by willful, repeated, or failure-to-abate violations.” Under the program, an inspection of an employer meeting the criteria of an SVEP case may result in enhanced follow-up inspections…
