OSHA’s Top 10 Most Frequently Cited Standards: The Usual Suspects

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Year after year, organizations across industries and throughout the nation fail to meet federal worker safety guidelines. And year after year, this oversight exposes laborers to needless injury or even death, opening organizations up to immense risk.

The proof of these conditions comes directly from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). OSHA’s top 10 most frequently cited standards list outlines the most common standard violations—and year after year, this list of frequently cited OSHA standards lists the same repeat offenders, the top 10 most wanted criminals of the compliance world.

With frightening regularity, these “usual suspects” make the list—with the only variations generally being where they are in the hierarchy of the most common OSHA violations. The prevalence of these repeat standards on this list underscores the prevalence of rule breaking, as well as the keen eye of OSHA to catch violations.

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