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Click to add text•Personnel Concepts provides up-to-date compliance solutions for state and federal workplace regulations.

•It pioneered the All-On-One Labor Law Poster and furnishes US Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) compliance products ranging from the PPE Workplace Hazard Assessment Checklist to the Forklift Operating Rules Poster.

Click to add text•When most people hear of OSHA, they think of the federal agency, but over 20 states operate an OSHA of their own.

•These state-level OSHAs carry out roughly 12,000 more inspections per year than the federal OSHA.

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•However, the state OSHAs classify fewer violations as serious, meaning they impose an average fine of just over $960, while the federal agency's average fine exceeds $2,100.

•The above information comes from a Government Accountability Office report titled, "OSHA Can Better Respond to State-Run Programs Facing Challenges," a document that criticized the federal oversight of state OSHA programs.

•So far, only one state, Hawaii, may lose its OSHA. Recently, federal OSHA sent several staffers to assist Hawaii in restoring its program.

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