Industrial Commission of Arizona plans to increase workplace inspections

The chairman of Arizona’s worker-safety agency said he is committed to increasing workplace inspections and levying higher fines after families whose loved ones died in workplace accidents pressed for reforms. Dale Schultz, chairman of the Industrial Commission of Arizona, spoke to ABC15 following an ABC15 Investigators report on how families are pushing for an overhaul of the state worker-safety program. Schultz told ABC15 the Industrial Commission, which also oversees the Arizona Division of Occupational Safety and Health, or ADOSH, plans to increase workplace inspections this year.