OSHA Restarts Stalled Recordkeeping NEP Directive With New Targeting Criteria

After suspending in late July a highly visible national emphasis program targeting recordkeeping, OSHA has quietly reinstated the program with an updated compliance directive that revises the targeting criteria and focuses the inspection effort on the manufacturing sector, along with the addition of some nursing homes. The revised directive was posted on the agency's website late last week, but was not otherwise announced by the agency. OSHA put the recordkeeping National Emphasis Program (NEP) on hold this summer in order to compile additional targeting criteria, according to an agency spokes