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The United States, Occupational Safety and Health Administration has constantly striven to achieve workplace safety by issuing and enforcing certain standards, policies and regulations. OSHA has now gone one step further by awarding 45 grants, totaling up to a sum of nearly $8 million. Furthermore, it is also important to note that these grants target different sectors. Firstly, $225,000 has been allotted to train workers on heat illness, whereas, $150,000 has been kept aside to train union members on fall protection and $220,000 has been allotted to train nail salon workers. The 45 grants are a part of the Susan Harwood Capacity Building program. More specifically, $150,000 has been handed over to a Washington D.C. roofing company in order to train union members on fall protection. $220,000 has been given to the University of Berkley in order to provide 2-hour training sessions to workers in the restaurant and nail salon industries. Finally, $225,000 has been handed over to a San Fran...

The Cooperative Plus Inc, a farmer-owned cooperative, must be very familiar with OSHA's wrath by now. For it has been just a few months since it was slapped with a fine of $721,000 after an employee was seriously injured from nearly being engulfed by soybeans at the cooperative's Burlington, Wisconsin facility. Currently, it faces a penalty of nearly $374,500, for being guilty of committing 25 safety violations at 2 particular grain facilities situated at Whitewater and Genoa City. Regarding this matter, the Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA, Dr. David Michaels said that, “This continued non-compliance with long established safety standards for working in grain handling operations by Cooperative Plus Inc. shows a complete disregard for worker safety,". He further went on to say that,"All workers have the right to work in a safe environment and the Labor Department will use all legal means necessary to ensure companies comply with established safety requirements....