Sexual Harrassment (click for Newsday column)

It is natural for employers and employees to focus on the obvious: Personal protective equipment, safe plant and systems of work, safe access and egress, emergency procedures and information, training and supervision. Nevertheless, while harassment and sexual harassment in the workplace have not been afforded their own space in local law and litigants have had to straddle various statutes and common law positions and industrial relations practices to seek redress, the OSH legislation may actually create an opportunity for more litigation.