OSHA Inspection Numbers Rebounding Close to Pre-Pandemic Level

OSHA should meet its fiscal year 2022 goal of conducting 31,400 inspections across all types of workplaces after the Covid-19 pandemic put a deep crimp in those numbers in the past two years, according to the agency’s construction directorate boss, Scott Ketcham.

If OSHA succeeds, it would be a rebound back to pre-pandemic inspection levels. The Biden administration has made it a priority to increase enforcement by the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Congress has funded more than 85 new inspector positions.

OSHA had started 28,631 inspections as of Sept. 1, Ketcham said Wednesday during the agency’s Advisory ...