Charles Keller

Nov 28, 2023 | lexology.com | Charles Keller |Dawn Davis |Tyler Thomas

BackgroundFederal OSHA (“Fed OSHA”) has long had a Severe Violators Enforcement Program (“SVEP”), intended to target employers who demonstrate “indifference to their OSH Act obligations by willful, repeated, or failure-to-abate violations.”1 Until recently, many states maintaining their own OSHA plans, so called “State Plan” states, have resisted enforcement of an SVEP program in their own jurisdictions.