At OSHA, we gather a lot of numbers. They tell us about the health and safety of U.S. workplaces and help us measure our progress in reducing injuries and illness. But numbers don’t always tell the whole story, and that’s definitely true in the case of inspections.
Every year, our agency posts the number of safety and health inspections conducted in the previous year. In FY 2014, that number was 36,163, with another 47,217 inspections conducted by states that administer their own health and safety plans.