OSHA has adjusted the targeting criteria for new inspections under its ongoing Recordkeeping National Emphasis Program. OSHA routinely evaluates NEPs and makes adjustments after they have run for nine months to a year. OSHA made adjustments September 28 to the targeting criteria for the Recordkeeping NEP to focus on manufacturing, larger worksites and employers with higher injury rates than in the initial criteria. OSHA began the Recordkeeping NEP in October 2009. As of October 1, 2010, OSHA has initiated 187 inspections under the NEP. Almost half of the inspections conducted so far have found recordkeeping violations. The NEP is scheduled to run through February 2012.

OSHA Assistant Secretary David Michaels has said clearly that accurate injury and illness logs are critically important and he is committed to "ensuring that OSHA recordkeeping requirements are met in the nation's workplaces and that injury and illness data reported by employers are accurate and not influenced by improper incentive or disincentive programs."