Our team works on wide-ranging health and safety issues at the federal and state level. We work side by side with our clients, enabling you to provide your employees with a safe, secure, and healthy workplace.
Each member of our team understands the urgency of your issues, especially those involve the health and safety of your employees and your company’s compliance with applicable laws and regulations. We respond promptly with actionable solutions to the matters facing your company. In the health and safety world, timely, clear, and concise decision-making makes all the difference – and that is what we strive to provide every day to our clients.
Our Services
We represent many types of employers, including manufacturing, construction, transportation, retail trade, and services. Our team has decades of experience preparing for and responding to inspections and citations from a variety of government agencies, including the Occupational Health and Safety Agency (OSHA), as well as its State counterparts. OSHA inspections and citations are time-sensitive matters that not only directly impact your employee’s health and safety, but can also be disruptive to operations. We work with you and your employees, leveraging our experience and knowledge, to resolve matters as quickly as possible.
Our guidance to clients on workplace health and safety matters includes:
- Compliance counseling, including for OSHA and related matters;
- Timely and responsive crisis management;
- Government agency inspections and investigations;
- Active defense of government agency citations, including those involving catastrophic events and fatalities;
- Pro-active training for supervisors, managers, executives, and in-house counsel;
- Addressing anonymous safety complaints; and
- Investigation and active defense of whistleblower claims.
When an accident or an inspection occurs, we immediately provide you with the support you need. In these incidents, time is of the essence, and we are available remotely immediately and often can be on scene within an hour to assess the situation and advise on how to move forward. If you receive a citation, we work with you through informal conferences, settlement discussions, and formal hearings, providing either background support or serving as the face of the company.
We also assist companies with regulatory compliance before an inspection or issuance of a citation, to foster workplace safety and prevent serious disruption from an enforcement action that may affect your business. To help you and your team comply with Environmental, Health, and Safety (EH+S) requirements, we support you through proactive education and training programs for all team members—including staff and management, and C-Suite leaders. From preparing for OSHA inspections to running internal audits, our team has the experience and industry knowledge to support your health and safety needs.
Our Team
Our Health + Safety group is an interdisciplinary team of colleagues from our firm’s diverse practice groups, including: Environmental, Energy + Telecommunications; Construction; and Labor, Employment, Benefits + Immigration. Our attorneys are proficient in dispute resolution, with extensive experience dealing with health and safety regulatory and enforcement matters. We understand the impact an enforcement action can have on a facility, and your entire company. We work with you to minimize the chances that enforcement will occur and streamline the process if it does.
Whatever EH+S issues arise in your industry and workforce, our top-tier Health + Safety practice group takes a proactive and sophisticated approach to preventing incidents—while providing immediate and unwavering support when an accident or an inspection occurs.
