The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is launching the Site-Specific Targeting 2016 (SST-16) Program, using injury and illness information electronically submitted by employers for calendar year 2016, according to www.osha.gov. The program will target high injury rate establishments in the manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors for inspection.
Under SST-16, OSHA will perform inspections of employers the agency believes should have provided 300A data but did not for the 2016 injury and illness data collection. For 2016, OSHA required employers to electronically submit Form 300A data by Dec. 15, 2017. The calendar year 2017 deadline was July 1, 2018; however, employers still may provide this information to the database.
Going forward, establishments with 250 or more employees that currently are required to keep OSHA injury and illness records and establishments with 20-249 employees classified in specific industries with historically high rates of occupational injuries and illnesses will be required to provide this information each year by March 2.
