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The top five OSHA health complaints of 2014 are listed as, fall protection, hazard communication, scaffolding, respiratory protection, and powered industrial trucks. (https://www.osha.gov/Top_Ten_Standards.html)   Fall  protection was the number one OSHA complaint for this year.  This regulation exist to ensure that employers are making sure employees are safe from, slipping, tripping, or falling.   This can range anywhere from making sure the floors are not slippery, to making sure the structures employees are walking on are stable.  There are dozens of sub-regulations to the fall protections category.  One of which for example is as listed “Each employee less than 6 feet (1.8 m) above dangerous equipment shall be protected from falling into or onto the dangerous equipment by guardrail systems or by equipment guards.”  So as one can see as the regulations go much more in depth than one might think.  Hazard communication is the second on the list. The purpose of this section is to ensure that the hazards of all chemicals produced or imported are classified.  This includes labeling chemicals or safety warnings on containers to ensure people know what is the container and it is used safely.  Scaffolding is the third on our list.  Scaffolding is used all over the world for many reasons especially when performing repair or construction. (https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=STANDARDS&p_id=10752) There are many sub-regulations regarding this as well.  Scaffolding needs to be able to withstand a certain weight, they must be put together safely, and in some cases need counter weights so they do not tip easily, and many other rules.  Respiratory protection is the fourth violation listed.  This is also a very broad regulation.  It includes breathing anything from solid particles to breathing in gases.  This regulation exists to try and keep the air people breathe safe.  The 5^th regulation on our list is powered industrial trucks.  OSHA lists this regulation as follows’ “This section contains safety requirements relating to fire protection, design, maintenance, and use of fork trucks, tractors, platform lift trucks, motorized hand trucks, and other specialized industrial trucks powered by electric motors or internal combustion engines.”  So this is a fairly broad category with multiple regulations within it to try and keep the use of this type of equipment safe.