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KY Labor Cabinet Says On-Site Visits Save Companies from Fines

WKMS | By Todd Hatton,

Published January 8, 2018 at 8:20 AM CST

Kentucky's Labor Cabinet says it saved companies up to $434,000 in potential fines by conducting five on-site visits last month for employers across the state. As a result of the free, on-site visits, also known as "consultative surveys," the cabinet says employers corrected 62 serious violations. The agency says those violations could have affected up to 1,100 employees and resulted in enforcement penalties of up to $434,000. The cabinet’s Division of Occupational Safety & Health Education & Training says consultative surveys are an effort to increase workplace safety by improving injury and illness rates. Employers who make use of these surveys do not face penalties unless violations are not corrected.

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Todd Hatton hails from Paducah, Kentucky, where he got into radio under the auspices of the late, great John Stewart of WKYX while a student at Paducah Community College. He also worked at WKMS in the reel-to-reel tape days of the early 1990s before running off first to San Francisco, then Orlando in search of something to do when he grew up. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at Murray State University. He vigorously resists adulthood and watches his wife, Angela Hatton, save the world one plastic bottle at a time.

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