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Occupational Safety and Health Administration

The purpose of this program is to assure, so far as possible, every working person in the nation safe and healthful working conditions. It implements the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 by setting and enforcing standards, outreach and education, cooperative programs and compliance assistance.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • OSHA has not identified an efficiency measure that covers a substantial portion of its budget to help gauge of its productivity and improvements.
  • While the program's regulations contribute to achievement of its program goals, they do not maximize net benefits. OSHA has made improvements in its regulatory analyses since the last PART assessment, but needs to take further steps to fully analyze alternatives and increase the cost-effectiveness of its regulations.
  • OSHA has demonstrated positive results and progress in meeting some of its performance goals. Independent evaluations are conducted on a regular basis, and some show that OSHA's interventions and programs are associated with positive results. Some areas, however, warrant further exploration.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Constructing the OSHA Information System to improve data collection.
  • Completing regulatory reforms identified in the 2005 Report to Congress on the Costs and Benefits of Federal Regulation by the end of FY 2008.
  • Conducting rigorous independent evaluations to examine the relative effectiveness and efficiency of programmatic approaches.

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