At Least 1,260 Inspections Planned for 2013 Under OSHA Site-Specific Targeting Program

At least 1,260 establishments with above-average injury and illness rates in high-hazard industries will be inspected by the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration as part of its site-specific targeting program for 2013, the agency said Jan. 4.

Hundreds more workplaces could be inspected after federal compliance officers complete the “primary” inspection list of 1,260 businesses and move onto the “secondary inspection list,” according to the program’s directive, 13-01 (CPL 02). Construction companies are excluded from the program.

Although the updated effort has been dubbed Site-Specific Targeting 2012 (SST-12), the program became effective Jan. 4, 2013, and could ...