OSHA Program Updates Cooperative

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Ross Yeager Area Director Montana
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OSHAs Reason For Existence

• Public Law 91-596
• The Congress finds that personal injuries and
  illnesses arising out of work situations impose a
  substantial burden upon, and are a hindrance to,
  interstate commerce in terms of lost production,
  wage loss, medical expenses, and disability
  compensation payments.

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Public Law 91-596

• The Congress declares it to be its purpose and
  policy, through the exercise of its powers to
  regulate commerce among the several States and
  with foreign nations and to provide for the
  general welfare, to assure so far as possible
  every working man and woman in the Nation safe
  and healthful working conditions and to preserve
  our human resources.

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OSHAs Two Purposes

• 1) Help relieve the burden of
• Lost Production
• Lost wages
• Medical expenses
• Disability compensation payments

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OSHAs Two Purposes, Cont.

• 2) To provide for the general welfare

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So Where Does Compliance Fit In?

• Compliance Audits are really just spot checks to
  discover workplace conditions and/or work
  practices that may contribute to an accident.
• If corrected, they stop what may happen at the
  time or in the near future.

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What is The Real Solution

• Safety Culture!
• Insurance Provider
• State Consultation
• OSHA

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Compliance Assistance Specialists

• One in each OSHA Area Office
• Provide general information about OSHA
• Respond to requests for help from a variety of
  groups
• Available for seminars, workshops, and speaking
  events
• Promote cooperative programs and OSHAs training
  resources and materials

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Consultation Program

• Through this service
• Employers can find out about potential worksite
  hazards
• Improve their safety and health management system
  
• May qualify for a one-year exemption from routine
  OSHA inspection through the Safety and Health
  Achievement Recognition Program (SHARP).
• Confidential
• No cost to employer
• Employer requested service (voluntary)

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FY-07 Emphasis Areas

• Site Specific Targeting
• Establishments selected from the 2005 OSHA 300
  survey
• Primary inspection list DART at or above 12
  and/or DAFWII at or above 9
• National rates DART 2.5
• DAFWII 1.4

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FY-07 Emphasis Areas (cont.)

• Oil and Gas Industry
• Drilling
• Exploration Services
• Oil and gas services NEC
• Logging
• Amputation hazards in manufacturing
• Fall hazards in construction
• Commercial and residential

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FY-07 Emphasis Areas (cont.)

• Silica in Construction
• Highway, street, bridge and overpass construction
  and repair
• Trenching

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FY-06 Fatalities

• 11/3/05 Employee talking on cell phone was
  backed over by a concrete truck
• 11/10/05 Employee working next to a crane which
  was lifting a billboard sign was struck in the
  head when the crane boom collapsed
• 1/9/06 Employee building a birm across a pond
  (hazwaste site) drowned when the birm failed and
  the loader sunk into the water

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FY-06 Fatalities (cont.)

• 4/13/06 An employee servicing an oil field
  pumping unit was killed when the horsehead struck
  him
• 5/5/06 An employee contacted a live electrical
  part during the testing of overhead power line
  electrical equipment
• 6/19/06 While troweling a concrete surface, an
  employee contacted an overhead power line with
  the handle of the float

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FY-06 Fatalities (cont.)

• 7/14/06 A journeyman electrician cut into a
  live 120 volt underground cable
• 8/4/06 An employee driving a traffic control
  pilot car was backed over by heavy equipment