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What company do you go to when OSHA isn't doing their job?

I am pretty sure they are being paid off. Employees have purposely done things that cause a hazard in the workplace when OSHA has been here and they do nothing. We can't get the safety equipment we need because we are told it is "too expensive"

Public Comments

1. Contact the US Department of Labor Inspector General and complain there.
2. First, OSHA or state OSHA (not the same thing) would be inspecting from a local office. Second, rumors about what OSHA has seen are at best rumors and tall tails. Don't tell anything to OSHA unless you know things first hand. If concerned, go through the national OSHA complaint line. You must give OSHA your name, but on the form you can request that the name not be revealed. You need to give them as much info as possible, not just "they are doing it wrong". The problem comes when OSHA knows things when they investigate that only you could have told them, it can be easy for your employer to figure it out. Try to only give details that more people than you might know about (at least at first). Make sure you don't make things up, guess, or embellish anything.
3. Your company may have been given a variance from OSHA. A temporary variance is issued to a company if they can not afford the PPE and may be given more time to purchase the PPE, or an experimental if they have a system that may work just as well as the standard. If we take a bribe, we can be held responsible so I doubt any OSHA inspector that came to your company took money. If a variance was given to your company, you as an employee can file a written contest to the OSHA regional director that covers your area on only the variance date and nothing else. We take our jobs seriously and put you the worker first.