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Hazard Communication — 29 CFR 1910.1200 — has been in the OSHA Top 10 most‑cited violations for as long as the Top 10 has been published. There are only a handful of standards that consistently sit on that list, and HazCom is one of the few in general industry that does. That tells me something the inspections data already tells us: most employers think they have a HazCom program because they have a binder of Safety Data Sheets near the door, and most of those programs would not survive a...

The water and wastewater sector does not get the public attention that construction or manufacturing get. There are no skyscrapers and no front‑page industrial accidents for most of what utilities do. But this is the sector where I see some of the most preventable fatalities in my expert witness practice, and the failure pattern is almost always the same: the work feels routine, the hazards are invisible, and the rescue resources are nowhere near the people doing the work. A drinking water...

Falls from elevation are the leading cause of death in construction. Every year. Every published OSHA Top 10 list since at least 2010 has put fall protection — 29 CFR 1926.501 — at the top of the cited‑violations list. The standard is one of the oldest, best‑known, and most widely trained in the industry. And yet, in the United States, a worker dies from a fall roughly every other day on a construction site. When I'm retained as an expert witness in fall fatality cases, the failure pattern is...