Court Backs OSHA’s ‘Violence’ Penalty But Sidesteps Rulemaking Charge

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March 3, 2020 at 02:57 PM
A federal appeals court has rejected a hospital’s challenge to a penalty OSHA imposed under its General Duty Clause authority for not adequately addressing workplace violence, while sidestepping the hospital’s claim that the agency should instead have issued a rulemaking to address workplace violence rather than a citation.