Some community care facilities for the elderly, nursing care facilities and other residential care facilities will see additional inspections by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration under the agency’s new Site-Specific Targeting 2016 Program, announced this week.

OSHA said it will perform SST-16 inspections of workplaces that it believes should have, but did not, submit injury and illness data for 2016 on form 300A. Employers were required to submit the form by Dec. 15, 2017.

The aforementioned types of workplaces are among those being targeted because they historically have had high rates of occupational injuries and illness, OHSA said. Specifically, the agency said it will create inspection lists of establishments with elevated Days Away, Restricted or Transferred rates, also known as DART rates. At the selected sites, inspectors also will review OSHA 300 logs for 2017 and 2018 (to date).

Companies that participate in the Pre-Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program, or SHARP, may be granted deferrals from the inspections.The deadline for submission of 2017 injury and illness data was July 1, but OSHA said employers still can submit the information to its database. Going forward, companies with 250 or more employees that currently are required to keep OSHA injury and illness records, as well as workplaces with 20 to 249 employees that are classified in specific industries with historically high rates of occupational injuries and illnesses, will be required to provide these data by March 2 every year.