Virginia Updates Its OSHA Notice — New Poster Coming Soon!

Virginia just released an update to its Occupational Safety and Health (VOSH) law, based on federal OSHA requirements. The updated notice has a revision date of July, 2017.

Here’s What Has (or Hasn’t) Changed

In the Proposed Penalty section of the notice, the following penalty amounts have increased:

  • The maximum penalty for serious and other-than-serious violations has increased from $7,000 to $12,471.
  • The maximum penalty for willful and repeat violations has increased from $70,000 to $124,709.

However, some penalty amounts remain the same.

Failure to correct a violation within a certain amount of time still carries a maximum penalty of $7,000 per day. Criminal penalties for willful violations that result in the death of an employee are still punishable, upon conviction, by a maximum fine of $70,000, and the penalty will be doubled for a subsequent conviction.

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