OSHA reported at the annual meeting of the Voluntary Protection Program Participants Association (VPPPA) held August 25-28 in National Harbor, MD, outside of Washington, DC that as of July 2014, there were 2,293 active Voluntary Protection Program participants, protecting more than 875,000 workers. That number includes federal OSHA and state OSHA plan VPP approvals.
As of July, there were 1,534 federally-approved VPP sites, down from a high of 1,720 in 2010. OSHA administrator Dr. David Michaels has blamed budget constraints as a reason for the federal VPP site fall-off.