May 24, 2011 at 05:51 PM
OSHA has launched an extensive survey of private sector employers' safety and health management practices and plans to use the findings from the 19,000 employers it hopes to survey to bolster future rulemaking, primarily its injury and illness prevention program rule (I2P2), but some in industry worry OSHA may simply use the results to back up its own policy agenda. The voluntary survey will allow OSHA to “better design future rules, compliance assistance and outreach efforts,” OSHA says. OSHA announced its intent to conduct the survey in a Federal Register notice last August. The survey will