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OSHA Announces Targeted Inspection
Plan for 2007
Agency targets approximately 4,150 high hazard worksites
The U.S Department of Labor's
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) today announced
that its 2007 Site-Specific Targeting (SST) plan will focus on
approximately 4,150 high-hazard worksites in its primary list
for unannounced comprehensive inspections for the coming year.
"Over the past nine
years, OSHA has used a site-specific targeting inspection program
based on injury and illness data," said Assistant Secretary
of Labor for OSHA Edwin G. Foulke Jr. "This approach allows
us to focus our enforcement efforts on those workplaces with
the highest numbers of injuries and illnesses."
This year's program (SST-07)
stems from the agency's Data Initiative for 2006, which surveyed
approximately 80,000 employers to obtain their injury and illness
numbers for 2005. The program will initially cover worksites
on the primary list that reported 11 or more injuries or illnesses
resulting in days away from work, restricted work activity, or
job transfer for every 100 full-time employees (known as the
DART rate).
The primary list will also
include sites based on a Days Away from Work Injury and Illness
(DAFWII) rate of 9.0 or higher. Employers not on the primary
list who reported DART rates of between 7.0 and 11.0, or DAFWII
rates of between 4.0 and 9.0, will be placed on a secondary list
for possible inspection. The national incident DART rate in 2005
for private industry was 2.4, while the national incident DAFWII
rate was 1.4.
List of High Rate Industries
The following industries
have an industry DART rate from 6.6 to 13.2 as reported by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Annual Survey, TABLE SNR02.
Highest incidence rates of nonfatal occupational injury and illness
cases with days away from work, restricted work activity, or
job transfer, private industry 2005. (Listed from highest rate
to lowest rate.)
Beet sugar manufacturing
Light truck and utility vehicle manufacturing
Animal (except poultry) slaughtering
Flat glass manufacturing
Couriers
Prefabricated wood building manufacturing
Truss manufacturing
Scheduled air transportation
Hog and pig farming
Framing contractors
Heavy duty truck manufacturing
Iron foundries
Amusement parks and arcades
Rooming and boarding houses
Soft drink manufacturing
Clay refractory manufacturing
Truck trailer manufacturing
Fluid milk manufacturing
Cheese manufacturing
Bottled water manufacturing
Iron and steel forging
Overhead traveling crane, hoist, and monorail system manufacturing
Manufactured home (mobile home) manufacturing
Boat building
Beer, wine, and distilled alcoholic beverage merchant wholesalers
Source: OSHA, Directorate
of Evaluation and Analysis, Office of Statistical Analysis.
OSHA will inspect nursing
homes and personal care facilities, but only the highest 50 percent
of rated establishments will be included on the primary list.
Inspections will focus primarily on ergonomic hazards relating
to resident handling; exposure to blood and other potentially
infectious materials; exposure to tuberculosis; and slips, trips,
and falls.
The agency will also randomly
select and inspect approximately 100 workplaces (with 100 or
more employees) nationwide that reported low injury and illness
rates for the purpose of reviewing the actual degree of compliance
with OSHA requirements. These establishments are selected from
those industries with DART and DAFWII rates that are higher than
the national rate.
Finally, the agency will
include on the primary list some establishments that did not
respond to the 2006 data survey.
Source: OSHA News Release 5/18/07
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