Workplace slips, trips and falls continue to be the number-one safety violation cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), according to a presentation at the National Safety Congress now ongoing in Chicago.
Results for 2013 show that there were 8,241 citations issued for slips, trips and falls, with 6,156 citations for the Hazard Communication Standard (HAZCOM) coming in second.
Rounding out the top ten are violations of scaffolding use (5,423), respiratory protection (3,879), electrical wiring methods (3,452), powered industrial trucks (3,340), lockout/tagout (3,254), electrical general requirements (2,745), and machine guarding (2,701).
What was the 10th violation? Only 9 are listed.
Oops, guess we didn’t count to 10 while compiling the blog list. The 10th most cited violation is “electrical systems design.”