The Safety Audit Areas – Audits Are Broken Down into These Areas:
Employee knowledge
Written Program Review
Program Administration
Record & Document Review
Equipment and Material
General Area Walk-Through
STATS
According to the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA), the agency audited over 39,000 organizations in one year, with over 17,000 of those inspections labeled as “programmed”, meaning unexpected safety auditing.
In 2019, OSHA’s safety inspectors conducted 962 investigations into fatal or catastrophic workplace incidents caused by lack of inspections in the workplace.
OSHA has been cutting back even more, conducting only 5,127 inspections.
Workplaces across the country remain dangerous, triggering an annual average of about 880 fatal or catastrophic investigations in 2019.
OSHA conducted about 81,000 safety inspections — a 4.7 % decrease from about 85,000 conducted during the last three years.
OSHA had no assurance employers reported work-related inpatient hospitalizations, amputations, and losses of an eye. Estimates show employers do not report 50 % or more of severe injuries.
90 % of all workplace injuries are caused by the worker’s own unsafe actions because of lack of safety audits.