OSHA Compliance For Restaurants

Restaurants and their trade associations are justifiably proud of their food safety efforts as shown by the July 27, 2011 announcement by the National Restaurant Association celebrating over one million classes of restaurant industry training. But inspections by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) continue to turn up significant shortcomings in restaurant OSHA compliance – and these issues are not limited to the large institutional setting.

These problems may not result in employee injuries but can greatly harm a restaurant when it experiences a union drive, or complaints by a disgruntled employee who uses OSHA to harass the employer due to unrelated grievances.