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When the Call Comes, the Question Is Never About the Fine A manufacturing owner in Texas gets a call no one wants. One of his employees has been seriously injured on the floor -- a lockout/tagout failure on a piece of equipment that had been flagged internally more than once. OSHA opens an investigation. And the first question out of his mouth isn't about the employee. It isn't about the fine. It's: "Can they come after me personally?" The short [...]

When Safety Compliance Gets Delegated, Leadership Gets Exposed A plant manager walks in with a thick safety binder and says, "We've got it covered -- operations handles all that." Three weeks later, OSHA shows up unannounced. What they find isn't an operations problem. It's a leadership problem. The penalty runs over $80,000. This scenario plays out across manufacturing facilities more often than most leaders would expect. And in nearly every case, the root cause isn't a failure at the floor [...]

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