OSHA Advisors Eye SST Program Evaluation As Key Effectiveness Measure For Agency

An advisory panel to OSHA on national issues is scrutinizing an internal Labor Department evaluation of OSHA’s Site-Specific Targeting (SST) program as a key agency effectiveness measure, with the results of the long-term study likely to provide the agency and public with metrics showing whether tight enforcement resources are being put to good use. The continued scrutiny of SST comes as the Labor Office of Inspector General blasts the enforcement program, saying it leaves out 26 percent of workplaces with reported severe injuries and illnesses. But both union and employer interests criticized