The most profitable companies know the secret. Safety is good business. It's also common sense. Only 30 percent of employers nationwide have established safety and health programs. If we are going to achieve our goal of sending every worker home whole and healthy every day, that must change.
Enforcement underpins all of our efforts.
Together with state OSHA programs, we have about 2,500 inspectors to cover 6 million worksites and 100 million working Americans. Targeting our resources to focus on workplaces that really need our attention is critical. For the last four years, we've been getting injury and illness data from employers in high hazard industries-including trucking. ATA sued to keep us from getting this information, but after completing notice and comment rulemaking on the issue, we now receive it. When we conduct inspections, we must ensure that we go first to the places where workers are getting hurt.