We had family pictures taken on Sunday in Salem, Oregon and the photographer is based, but said we could only have 5 people in the studio at a time (there is a 6 person limit, so 5 people including her makes 6). She said OSHA can come at anytime and demand her security tapes to review and if they see more than 5 people then she gets a fine. edit: spelling
That's a little bit of a lie and probably said to just get customers off her ass. I gotta deal with workplace safety from time to time and I don't think OSHA does random inspections. They will visit if you have an accident, especially if someone dies or goes to the hospital, or if there's a work safety compliant. And even then the visit is limited to the complaint or incident at hand. They can't go back and inspect everything wholesale. But maybe now have deemed that practice acceptable since can since you can (GASP!) spread the dreaded Shanghai Sniffles at any given time.
OSHA can definitely just show up and inspect a workplace. And now, Kate Brown has weaponized OSHA so I have no reason to doubt the person that told me this.
Ah...maybe Oregon has a OSHA-like arm like us in Virginia where federal OSHA just says "Hey, VA/OR, your state OSHA can act as our agents and enforce our rules".
We get randomly inspected by Virginia OSHA (VOSH), but never by federal OSHA. I've been on jobs where the feds show up b/c some dude died or whatever, but in 25 years never just a random federal OSHA inspection. Guess I'm just lucky!
We had family pictures taken on Sunday in Salem, Oregon and the photographer is based, but said we could only have 5 people in the studio at a time (there is a 6 person limit, so 5 people including her makes 6). She said OSHA can come at anytime and demand her security tapes to review and if they see more than 5 people then she gets a fine. edit: spelling
That's a little bit of a lie and probably said to just get customers off her ass. I gotta deal with workplace safety from time to time and I don't think OSHA does random inspections. They will visit if you have an accident, especially if someone dies or goes to the hospital, or if there's a work safety compliant. And even then the visit is limited to the complaint or incident at hand. They can't go back and inspect everything wholesale. But maybe now have deemed that practice acceptable since can since you can (GASP!) spread the dreaded Shanghai Sniffles at any given time.
OSHA can definitely just show up and inspect a workplace. And now, Kate Brown has weaponized OSHA so I have no reason to doubt the person that told me this.
Ah...maybe Oregon has a OSHA-like arm like us in Virginia where federal OSHA just says "Hey, VA/OR, your state OSHA can act as our agents and enforce our rules".
We get randomly inspected by Virginia OSHA (VOSH), but never by federal OSHA. I've been on jobs where the feds show up b/c some dude died or whatever, but in 25 years never just a random federal OSHA inspection. Guess I'm just lucky!