What this site is
OSHACompliance.net is a free reference site for employers, safety officers, and HR managers who need to understand what OSHA requires and how to comply with it. The goal is straightforward: take the language of federal regulations and translate it into something a business owner without a legal team can actually read and use.
Most OSHA guidance online is either written by lawyers for lawyers, buried inside federal PDFs, or produced by companies selling compliance software. This site has none of those incentives. It's ad-supported, free to use, and focused on being useful rather than comprehensive for its own sake.
Who it's for
The reader this site is written for is typically a small business owner, a newly promoted supervisor, or an HR manager who got handed the safety compliance responsibility without a lot of background in it. They know something is required, they're not sure exactly what, and they don't have time to read 40-page federal standards to find out.
Safety professionals who know this material deeply will find some guides useful as quick references, but they'll also find places where the treatment is deliberately simplified. That tradeoff is intentional. A guide that's useful to a first-time reader is worth more than one that's technically exhaustive and practically inaccessible.
How the content is made
The guides on this site are written against the source OSHA standards — 29 CFR Part 1910, 1926, and others are the primary source for every compliance requirement described here. Where specific numbers are cited (penalty amounts, citation counts, height thresholds), they come from published OSHA data or the relevant CFR section.
Regulatory details change. Penalty amounts increase annually. Standards get revised. State plans differ from federal rules. This site is a starting point for understanding what's required — not a substitute for reading the actual standard or consulting a qualified safety professional for complex situations. OSHA.gov is always the authoritative source.
When content needs updating — when OSHA releases new citation data, when penalty amounts change, when a proposed rule becomes final — the relevant guides get revised. The "Last Updated" date on each guide reflects the most recent revision.
What the content does not do
This site does not provide legal advice. It doesn't tell you whether a specific condition at your specific workplace constitutes a violation. It doesn't predict how OSHA will interpret a particular standard in your situation. Those questions require a qualified person — a safety consultant, an industrial hygienist, or an attorney — who can look at your actual workplace.
What the guides do is explain what the standards say, what violations typically look like in practice, and what steps employers typically take to comply. That's useful context. It's not a compliance certification.
The checklists
The downloadable checklists are practical tools, not legal documents. They're built from the OSHA standards they cover, organized to be useful in the field, and formatted so a supervisor can walk through them without needing to reference anything else. They're free and ungated — no email required.
A checklist completed and signed is better than none. A checklist completed mechanically without understanding what's behind each item is better than none but worse than actually knowing the standard. Use the checklists alongside the guides, not instead of them.
Advertising
This site displays Google AdSense ads. Advertisers do not influence the content. No compliance company, training provider, or safety equipment supplier has paid to appear in or be recommended by any guide on this site. If that changes, it will be disclosed clearly.
Feedback and corrections
If something on this site is factually wrong, outdated, or misleading, that's worth knowing. The goal is accuracy, and regulatory content goes stale. There's no contact form yet — that's on the list.