Federal and state OSHA plan officials met a half-dozen times or so over the course of a year and a half to jointly come up with new performance measures to gauge the effectiveness of both the federal agency and state programs in response to concerns borne out by an internal Labor Department probe of effectiveness measures, a source familiar with the talks tells Inside OSHA Online. One key measure likely to arise from the discussions will center on enforcement presence in high-hazard industries, the source says. OSHA recently said it was trying to create 15 performance measures, following criti
December 29, 2025