So before I started my business I worked for my old boss for 10 years. He would always talk about being careful about stuff “because OSHA could show up” like they were some type of boogeyman. In those 10 years I never once saw anyone from any type of regulatory body.
So was my boss just being paranoid? What are the odds someone from OSHA actually would be around? have you ever dealt with them?
We had an OSHA report and visit at my last job. They were there for about a full work day, we got hit with some fines but got most reduced on the promise of fixing the issues. We fixed SOME of them, they never came back and checked.
About two months later we basically un-instituted the safety and environmental changes. Really considered calling them myself after that, wish I had.