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Article: OSHA unveils inspection plans for 2006.(RESOURCES: legal)(Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
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- New Hampshire Business Review
- Article date:
- September 15, 2006
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The U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently released its Site-Specific Targeting Plan for 2006.
The plan calls for a decreased number of contacts with "low-rate" establishments--those with a lower frequency of violations--increases inspections of "high-rate" establishments and adds to the list of targeted industries those in which a high number of businesses did not respond to OSHA's request for data last year. It also allows for deletion from the list those establishments who have had a comprehensive safety inspection within the previous 12 months.
According to Scott Lawson of the Concord-based environmental ...