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?
I used to work in demolition of textile mills. We salvaged and sold the materials. This guy came around he was a slumlord locally. He told me a story about OSHA coming to a particularly dangerous apartment he was repairing. The osha rep was taking pictures. The guy said if you take another picture i am going to smash your camera. osha guy kept going. The guy smashed the camera into the guys face. Then the guy sued osha and won.