Corporate Safety Compliance: OSHA, Ethics, and the Law

In the current landscape of changing responsibilities and new laws, safety and health professionals must make difficult decisions that can result, in hindsight, in the creation of legal issues and liabilities for themselves and their companies. Written by occupational health and safety expert Tom Schneid, Corporate Safety Compliance: OSHA, Ethics, and the Law provides guidance though the maze of legal issues involving OSHA and OSHRC and how to avoid legal liability. Features Explains how to avoid potential liability in the safety and health arena, Includes detailed examples and checklists for protocols used by OSHA, Provides an engineering approach to the integration of ethics into design and business operations, Supplies a working knowledge of the appeals process from the informal conference stage through to the U.S. Supreme Court, Explores the murky area of criminal liability for individuals and corporations under the OSHA Act and state criminal codes. Tom Schneid elucidates the potential legal and ethical issues of the new industrialized workplace. His proactive approach helps you avoid or minimize potential liabilities, where possible, but also gives you the necessary tools to be prepared and knowledgeable in the unique appellate process with OSHA and the OSHRC. Book jacket.