July 1, 2014 at 10:07 PM
OSHA's mid-Atlantic region has begun a new initiative in which compliance officers will fan out across the construction industry and look for possible violations in high-risk areas including falls, crushing, electrocution, and caught-between hazards, a program that closely follows one by the region two years ago in which the agency conducted more than 500 no-notice inspections and issued more than 200 citations.