OSHA has created a working group under its national advisory panel to study effectiveness measures for the agency, and the group will first meet in June -- just days before OSHA convenes a public stakeholder meeting on performance measures to evaluate state plans. A source familiar with the new work group tells Inside OSHA Online the pair of overarching issues -- how federal OSHA measures its own effectiveness, as well as how it defines the effectiveness of state plans as required by the OSH Act -- are tied together and will be scrutinized by the work panel. The agency faced criticism from the
December 29, 2025