Industry, Labor Both Disagree With OIG Call To Target Smaller Employers With SST

OSHA stakeholders in both industry and organized labor are coming out against a recommendation by the Labor Office of Inspector General (OIG) that OSHA expand its data collection to use data from work sites with 11 to 19 employees for enforcement purposes. The recommendation -- with which OSHA also disagrees -- comes out of a set of broad recommendations that OIG says would improve the agency's Site-Specific Targeting (SST) program. Employer interests are concerned that lowering the targeting threshold would expose small businesses to even further government scrutiny at a time when many are st