Amazon announces settlement with OSHA over safety practices

Amazon.com (AMZN) announced that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration agreed to withdraw all but one of the ergonomic citations it issued to the company concluding its investigation. The company said, “In 2022, OSHA opened an investigation focused on concerns about Amazon’s safety practices across our operations network. Today, OSHA agreed to withdraw all but one of the ergonomic citations it issued to us, concluding its investigation. The settlement comes just months after a judge in Washington state dismissed similar claims against Amazon brought by the state’s safety regulator. To reach today’s settlement, we cooperated fully with OSHA-producing thousands of documents, many years of data, and detailed records of our programs, processes, and procedures. These show that, as we’ve reported, we’ve been making meaningful progress toward our vision to be the safest employer in our respective industries…As agreed in the settlement, Amazon will continue leveraging our corporate team of certified ergonomists to ensure compliance across all sites in the network. We’ll also continue our regular engagement with our Associate Safety Committees, whose feedback we use to make changes and innovate new solutions when needed. We’ll continue our mandatory ergonomics training programs and track compliance to verify trainings are taken regularly, including during onboarding. Finally, we’ll keep conducting rigorous risk assessments for process paths at our sites.”