{"id":672,"date":"2014-02-03T21:43:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T02:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/?p=672"},"modified":"2014-02-03T21:43:56","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T02:43:56","slug":"should-you-challenge-osha-citations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/?p=672","title":{"rendered":"Should you challenge OSHA citations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Will Kramer has written an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rmmagazine.com\/2014\/02\/01\/is-it-a-safe-bet-to-challenge-osha\/?goback=%2Egde_4635984_member_5836158872175267844\" target=\"_blank\">excellent article<\/a> on why you should challenge OSHA citations.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\"><p>Based on an analysis of the more than 57,000 citations listed in OSHA\u2019s public inspection databases in 2012, employers achieved an average penalty reduction of 49% by negotiating their citations with OSHA at informal conferences. Of the 33,765 citations of this type, 7% were deleted entirely. This is a victory as the complete elimination of a citation is typically an employer\u2019s primary goal, since that effectively clears the employer\u2019s record in the event of future inspections, which could otherwise result in costly repeat citations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ve had very good luck with informal conferences. Be prepared. Know the law. Know the RAGAGEP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Kramer has written an excellent article on why you should challenge OSHA citations. Based on an analysis of the more than 57,000 citations listed in OSHA\u2019s public inspection databases in 2012, employers achieved an average penalty reduction of 49% &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/?p=672\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,65],"tags":[15,9],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compliance","category-osha","tag-fines","tag-osha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}