OSHA Memo: Recordkeeping Violations Found At Half Of NEP Sites

OSHA reveals in an internal memo that it found violations in roughly 50 percent of the inspections conducted under an injury and illness recordkeeping National Emphasis Program, which the agency has since put on hold, but the agency has not released specific details about the number or type of violations uncovered. OSHA told regional administrators and state plans in the memo, obtained by Inside OSHA Online, that agency officials will present alternatives to OSHA chief David Michaels on criteria for sites to be inspected under a future, modified NEP directive. The agency will revise the NEP co