Occupational Safety and Health
Our team, known and respected for its experience, knowledge and exceptional level of client service, offers strategic advice and innovative solutions for your workplace safety challenges.
With a dedicated team of attorneys who devote all or a substantial percentage of their practice to workplace safety law, we can assist clients of any size, industry or background.
Your Strategic Partner
Our attorneys prioritize helping clients avoid problems by ensuring compliance, advising on the development and enhancement of safety and health programs, and conducting safety and health audits. If issues do arise, we are equipped to handle OSHA inspections and negotiate favorable citation settlements. We have worked extensively with employers across general industry, construction, and special industry sectors.
We offer skilled processes and strategies to assist and protect clients during their most vulnerable times, including working to safeguard risk assessments and other proprietary information during investigations. Our attorneys regularly represent employers with “willful,” “egregious” and “severe violator enforcement program” cases, and have extensive experience litigating contested OSHA cases before the OSH Review Commission, equivalent state agencies and appellate courts. In crisis situations, such as natural gas explosions or active shooter incidents, we offer comprehensive crisis management support.
What We Do
What We Do
We have the experience to help prevent safety and health crises and adeptly manage them if they arise
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Develop preventive practices, including drafting and implementing safety policies, plans and protocols.
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Provide training on key OSHA compliance obligations, including state and federal injury and illness recordkeeping and reporting requirements, and how to navigate onsite OSHA inspections.
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Conduct legal compliance safety audits to ensure adherence to standards.
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Handle OSHA inspections and respond to inquiries from compliance officers and inspectors.
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Support client teams and provide responses to OSHA complaints and inquiries.
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Effectively negotiate, settle and resolve state and federal safety citations.
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Litigate citations and violations, representing client interests in contested OSHA cases.
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Respond to and litigate OSHA 11c or state equivalent retaliation complaints.
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Provide effective crisis management assistance after severe or mass fatality incidents.
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Draft comments to respond to safety regulatory proposals or represent trade associations and organizations before Congress.
Mine Safety and Health
Similar to our OSHA Practice, our MSHA attorneys assist clients with matters in front of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission and appellate courts in challenges to citations, penalty assessments and other agency actions. We also assist mining companies with their compliance efforts and represent mine operators and managers in special investigations and safety discrimination investigations.
Our MSHA attorneys have extensive experience implementing and training on preventive practices, conducting legal compliance audits, assisting with crisis management and responding to safety regulatory proposals.
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