The OSHA Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) represents the gold standard in workplace safety and health management. Participating worksites commit to exceeding basic OSHA compliance and maintaining comprehensive safety programs that protect employees through proactive hazard prevention.

This VPP Annual Self-Evaluation Form is designed for safety managers, compliance officers, and facility leaders who need to conduct their required annual assessment of safety and health management systems. Whether you're in manufacturing, construction, healthcare, or any industry participating in VPP, this template provides a structured approach to documenting your program's effectiveness.

The form guides you through all critical evaluation areas: management leadership and employee involvement, worksite analysis procedures, hazard prevention and control measures, and safety training programs. You'll calculate key injury and illness rates (DART and TCIR) to benchmark your performance against OSHA requirements, document employee participation metrics, and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

Paperform makes VPP compliance easier by centralizing your annual documentation in one secure, professional form. Conditional logic adapts questions based on your responses, calculations automatically compute injury rates from your data, and all submissions are stored securely for OSHA review. You can easily share completed evaluations with management, safety committees, and OSHA representatives.

For sites managing multiple VPP facilities or coordinating safety across several locations, Stepper (stepper.io) can automate your post-submission workflows—routing completed evaluations for management review, triggering corrective action plans when injury rates exceed thresholds, updating safety dashboards, and scheduling follow-up assessments. This keeps your VPP program running smoothly while maintaining the documentation trail OSHA expects.

As a SOC 2 Type II compliant platform trusted by over 500,000 teams worldwide, Paperform provides the security and reliability your compliance documentation requires, helping you maintain your VPP certification year after year.