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Deadly error: Not enforcing safety plan
Keep in mind that written safety policies aren’t worth the paper they’re written on if you, as the supervisor, don’t enforce them.
Company: EaglePicher Automotive, Traverse City, MI.
Business: Automotive parts supplier.
Agency: Michigan OSHA.
Fine: $100,800 (proposed).
Reason for fine: The operation was hammered for lockout/tagout problems. Although the company had a written program, regulators found that supervisors didn’t enforce it.
Note: An employee was killed when a computer numeric control machine that he was working on started up unexpectedly. The device wasn’t properly locked out before the job began.
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