Workplace safety experts with the state Labor Department can provide confidential on-site walk-throughs and recommendations to state businesses, so employers have a head's up on what inspectors from the federal Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) might find if they make a surprise visit. Oklahoma Labor Commissioner Melissa McLawhorn Houston urged some 700 attendees of a McAfee & Taft employment law seminar Wednesday at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum to take advantage of the service. OSHA inspections last year resulted in $7.5 million fines to employers nationwide; fines that reportedly may go up as much as 80 percent, she said....
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