Workplace Training: Alleged Violations Sees California Company Hit with Big Fine

California Company Hit with $150k+ Fines for Alleged Violations

The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) gave Blackbird Mountain Guides $151,300 worth of fines after it concluded that the company had made over half a dozen alleged violations, alleged workplace training violations among them. Just one fine accounted for $81,000 worth of the amount that Blackbird Mountain Guides has been told to pay.

It all stems from an incident earlier this year, in February, when an avalanche struck as a group of 15 were on a trek in Sierra Nevada, taking the lives of nine people in total—six skiers and three employees of the company who were professional guides. The surviving six people were found only after rescuers battled stormy weather to locate and reach them. Cal/OSHA indicated that Blackbird Mountain Guides did not “correct the imminent hazard posed by traveling in avalanche terrain when the avalanche danger was rated high.”

Plus, the alleged workplace violations—of which there are five—include the notion that they did not provide adequate workplace training. FlexManager offers a suite of Health & Safety modules to help companies create workplace safety compliance, avoid legal exposure, minimize risk, and capture relevant data.

They are designed to help you prove your workplace training and safety compliance, giving you the relevant tools to develop smart compliance strategies. Take the time to book a demo with FlexManager now to help meet your workplace training needs, and reveal more about our Health & Safety-focused modules, such as Incident Reporting, Risk Assessments, Job Risk Management, and more. In doing so, you’ll discover how to empower your business with a single, centralised platform.

Original Article: Backcountry guide company faces $150K in fines after state’s deadliest avalanche

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