Training & Seminars

Snell & Wilmer regularly offers presentations and seminars to clients, businesses and organizations, providing essential information on meeting OSHA/MSHA compliance standards and regulations, navigating inspections and accident investigations, taking preventive steps that can help minimize and avoid liability, and other important matters.

Conducted by Charles Keller, Snell & Wilmer's lead attorney in OSHA/MSHA litigation, the firm's specialized training and education presentations include a three-part seminar series that focuses on minimizing and preventing liability. This "Trilogy Series" includes the following sessions, each covering a full range of key topics:

Session One: Employer's Rights and Responsibilities During an OSHA/MSHA Inspection

• Rights of an employer during an inspection
• Compliance issues in a multi-employer worksite
• Evidence needed by OSHA/MSHA to prove its case

Session Two: Minimizing Liability for Business Owners

• Defenses to citations
• Tips for complying with the unpreventable employee misconduct defense
• The proper way to react to a workplace accident

Session Three: The Criminal Threat: ADOSH and the Attorney General Working Together

• The threat of criminal prosecution
• A case study with a client who shares his story, and discusses the importance of taking preventive steps to avoid accidents and liability

Arizona Association of Defense Counsel Advocacy Seminar: Understanding the Threat of Criminal Prosecution for a Workplace Accident

Confronting Myths of the OSHA Inspection Process

Safety and Other Employment Issues Confronting Re: TELECOMMUTING

In addition, seminars are offered on a continual basis, which address a variety of OSHA/MSHA litigation matters and provide useful insights and information for employers, contractors, small businesses, construction companies, municipality risk managers, human resource professionals and others. The topics can be customized for the company or organization, to meet the needs of the group.

For a calendar of upcoming seminars or to schedule a presentation, contact Chuck Keller at ckeller@swlaw.com or (602) 382-6265.

Training Aids
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Publications
OSHA - What is the Multiple Employer Worksite Liability Theory? 

It is well settled that in a Section 5(a)(2) case alleging a specific violation of an OSHA regulation, the employer may only be cited when its own employees had access or exposure to the hazard. However, over the years this general rule of OSHA liability has been greatly expanded by one exception to the general rule, the multiple employer worksite liability theory. Click the link to learn more.