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Violating Occupational Safety and Health Administration rules will come at a higher cost now that the Department of Labor has increased fines. The newly increased penalties went into effect on Tuesday.

OSHA‘s maximum penalties increased from $14,502 per violation to $15,625 per violation for serious and other-than-serious violations, the DOL stated. Penalties for failing to abate increased to $15,625 per day beyond the abatement rate from $14,502. The maximum penalty for purposeful or repeated violations rose from $145,027 per violation to $156,259 per violation.

Minimum fines for willful violation increased from $10,360 to $11,162, according to the final rule of federal civil penalties adjusted for the cost of living in 2023.

Legislation that Congress passed in 2015 required agencies to publish 鈥渃atch-up鈥� rules that increase civil fines and adjust for inflation by Jan. 15 every year, officials stated.

鈥淚n 2015, Congress passed the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act to advance the effectiveness of civil monetary penalties and to maintain their deterrent effect,鈥� OSHA stated. 鈥淯nder the Act, agencies are required to publish 鈥渃atch-up鈥� rules that adjust the level of civil monetary penalties and make subsequent annual adjustments for inflation no later than January 15 of each year.鈥�

Because the date this year fell on Sunday and Monday was a federal holiday, officials launched fine increases on Tuesday.