You small business owners, take note:
"With regard to workplace violence, OSHA has identified certain industries and tasks that place employees at increased risk," said Juan Rodriguez, an OSHA spokesman. "When an employer operates a location in a high crime area and there have been previous incidents of threats at the location, employers must take precautions and train employees."
Those precautions include actions like adding security features, creating written safety plans and implementing training for workers, OSHA said.
The fine and warnings from federal regulators come as Baton Rouge experiences a record-breaking wave of murders — 2021 was the deadliest year on record, and 2022 is currently on pace to be the second-deadliest, according to Advocate records.
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Once again, the government is trying to shut down small businesses. What about the field service mechanic that has to go into the bad part of town to get an AC or heater operating ? May have to send 'Over Watch" with him.
After an assistant manager got stabbed, federal regulators have fined the owner of Baton Rouge B-Quik gas stations and Benny's car washes $17,403, saying the businesses didn't do enough to
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