OSHA Adds Smaller Workplaces To Site-Specific Targeting, Plans To Evaluate Program

OSHA is making two key changes to inspections under its Site-Specific Targeting (SST) program, one of which effectively puts a stronger emphasis on inspecting smaller workplaces in high-hazard industries. Only workplaces in the selected industries with 40 or more employees were subject to SST inspections under last year's plan; that number is reduced to 20 or more under the newly issued plan. At the same time the agency says an evaluation study measuring the program’s impact on future compliance with OSHA standards has been introduced for the revised program. An industry attorney told Inside O