{"id":"DUT-IN-011","kind":"duty","level":"federal","jurisdiction":"Indiana (State plan monitored by federal OSHA Region V)","state":"IN","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Region V (Chicago)","authority":"Section 18 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, 29 U.S.C. 667; 29 C.F.R. Part 1902 and 1954","instrument":"FY 2020 Follow-up Federal Annual Monitoring Evaluation (FAME) Report, Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration (evaluation period Oct. 1, 2019 to Sept. 30, 2020)","title":"Federal OSHA\u0027s evaluation of IOSHA\u0027s FY 2020 enforcement, recording over 6,200 complaints (5,098 in the second half of the year), automated employer letters for COVID-19 complaints and the March 23 to July 10, 2020 pause of onsite inspections","dateIssued":"2019-10-01","effective":"Describes enforcement during 2020 Q2 and 2020 Q3","end":"Not applicable (evaluation report)","startDate":"2019-10-01","endDate":"2020-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3"],"types":["EMP","DUTY"],"addressees":["employers (every Indiana employer subject to IOSHA)"],"clause":"IOSHA received and processed significantly more complaints in the second half of FY 2020 than they have ever received for any similar time period. They received over 6,200 complaints during the fiscal year and 5,098 of these were received in the second half of the year.... Indiana\u0027s Commissioner of Labor at the time directed staff to pause onsite inspections from March 23 to July 10.","enforcement":"Enforcement record; penalties under Ind. Code 22-8-1.1-27.1 (Ex. DUT-IN-005)","functions":[],"notes":"Records that Indiana employers were the subject of more than 6,200 valid COVID-era complaints in FY 2020 (plus 3,900 invalid), that IOSHA automated \u0027letters to employers for the COVID-19 complaints submitted online\u0027 and cut the time to initiate complaint investigations to 3.31 days, that onsite inspections were paused March 23 to July 10, 2020 while \u0027many Indiana businesses were closed or operated at limited capacity,\u0027 and that the general duty clause (Ind. Code 22-8-1.1-2) was the citation vehicle reviewed. Character as recorded: enforcement_record (federal monitoring report; workplace_duty layer).","sourceUrl":"https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/2021-07/Indiana-FY-2020-Follow-up-FAME-Report.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":661110,"grade":"primary","character":"enforcement_record","description":"","collection":"DUT-IN","url":"/library/DUT-IN-011","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-IN-011","citation":"U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Region V (Chicago), FY 2020 Follow-up Federal Annual Monitoring Evaluation (FAME) Report, Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration (evaluation period Oct. 1, 2019 to Sept. 30, 2020) (Ex. DUT-IN-011)","stateName":"Indiana","related":["DUT-IN-005","DUT-IN-010","DUT-IN-013","DUT-IN-014"]}