Question

When Occupational Safety and Health Act inspectors discover a hazard in which illness or injury incurred is unlikely to cause death or serious physical harm, but the violation does have a direct impact on safety and health, it reports a(n) ______ violation.

Answer 1

Answer:

Other-than-Serious Violations

Explanation:

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Act is a law of the United States which ensures workplace safety are enforced. Work sites and companies are visited periodically by OSHA inspectors by for inspections to confirm the act is being complied with.

If during an inspection, the OSHA inspector discovered that a hazard in a workplace made a worker workers suffer injury or sickness but this will not result in death or serious physical injury, the inspector will report an Other-than-Serious Violations .

The inspector may decide that the company pay the  maximum penalty for the violation, decide not to levy a fine, or decide to reduce the penalty which can be up to 95 percent reduction. This penalty decision will depend on the factors like level of cooperation by the owner of the business and the size of the business.