Safety 2009 Proceedings

757 The Unpreventable Employee Misconduct Defense

Instructor: Matthew T. Deffebach, Haynes and Boone, LLP, Houston, TX

Description: Unpreventable employee misconduct. This frequently advanced defense to OSHA citations often fails, given the stringent requirements for successfully lodging it. Discovering this reality in OSHA litigation is frustrating for the safety professional who has implemented OSHA-complaint procedures only to have an employee disregard them. Learn from an OSHA defense lawyer how to avoid this result.

Level: I