OSHA Re-ups Targeting of High-Injury Sites

May 21, 2025

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OSHA Updates Site-Specific Highest-Injury Targeting Effort

  • OSHA announced Tuesday that it has updated its Site-Specific Targeting program, the agency’s primary planned inspection program for non-construction establishments with 20 or more employees.
  • The inspection program directs agency enforcement resources to establishments with the highest rates of injuries and illnesses based on injury and illness data submitted in accordance with OSHA’s recordkeeping requirements from 2023 data.
  • Establishments may be selected for inspection based on: High injury and illness rates from 2023 data; Upwardly trending injury and illness rates based on 2021-2023 data at or above twice the 2022 private sector average; Injury and illness rates markedly below industry averages; and/or, Failure to submit an OSHA Form 300A in 2023.
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Flash: NIOSH Outcry Sparks Changes

  • “Moving fast and breaking things” can lead to mistakes, according to our sister publication Cal-OSHA Reporter.
  • Now NIOSH is getting some of its people and programs back after recent cuts that have been described as “decimation.”
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Feds Mull Changes to Shipyard Asbestos Reporting

  • The Labor Department is considering changes to the information collection requirements contained in the Asbestos in Shipyards Standard.
  • OSHA is requesting an adjustment decrease in burden hours from 1,038 hours to 976 hours, a difference of 62 hours.
  • According to the Federal Register notice, this decrease is due to a reduction in the number of establishments and employees, as well as a decrease in the estimated number of asbestos-containing materials and presumed asbestos-containing materials in their work environments.
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Liberal Think Tank Calls for Broader State-Level Heat Protection Measures

  • The Center for American Progress this week called on states to take the lead on on-the-job extreme heat exposure.
  • “In the absence of federal action to protect workers from the rising dangers of exposure to extreme heat on the job, states must take the lead—and can look to existing and proposed standards from other localities for guidance,” Jill Rosenthal, the group’s Director, Public Health, wrote in a blog article.
  • The Washington, D.C.-based public policy research and advocacy organization leans left, according to its rating on the AllSides Media Bias website.
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