OSHA Program Updates Cooperative

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An Overview of OSHA's Compliance Assistance
Resources 2005 National Equal Opportunity
Conference August 24, 2005 900 AM 1015 AM
Hyatt Regency, Washington, DC
Lee Anne Jillings Director, Office of Outreach
Services and Alliances Directorate of Cooperative
and State Programs Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
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OSHAs Mission
Assure so far as possible every working man and
woman in the nation safe and healthful working
conditions.
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OSHAs Vision
Every employer and employee in the nation
recognizes that occupational safety and health
add value to American businesses, workplaces, and
workers lives.
Workers
Nursing Home
Warehouse
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By 2008, reduce fatality rates 15 and
injury/illness rates 20 through Goal 1
Reduce occupational hazards
through direct intervention Goal 2 Promote
safety and health culture
through compliance assistance,
cooperative programs, and strong
leadership Goal 3 Strengthen agency
capabilities and
infrastructure
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Goal 2 Compliance Assistance, Cooperative
Programs, and Leadership

• OSHA will identify ways to improve safety and
  health in the following areas
• Youth fatalities, injuries, and illnesses
• Immigrant and other hard-to-reach
  
  
• employers and workers
• Transportation fatalities
• Workplace violence fatalities
• Small business
• Potential for safety by
• design campaign

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OSHA Compliance Assistance (CA) Resources

• OSHA Web page
• CA Web page
• CA Quick Start
• MyOSHA
• Publications
• Compliance Assistance Specialists
• 1-800-OSHA

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OSHA Web Page
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Compliance Assistance Web Page
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Publications

• Brochures
• Quick Cards
• Safety and Health Information Bulletins
• QuickTakes
• Posters
• Pamphlets
• Fact Sheets
• News Releases

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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
• Promote OSHA's training resources and the tools

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Hispanic Outreach

• Electronic Assistance Tools
• Web Pages
• OSHA en Espanol
• Hispanic Employers and Workers Compliance
  Assistance Web page
• Hispanic Outreach Module of Compliance Assistance
  Quick Start
• eTools
• Preventing Construction Fatalities
• Sewing
• Public Service Announcements
• Success Stories
• Regional Showcase Articles
• Publications
• Hispanic Outreach Fact Sheet

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Hispanic Employers and Workers Compliance
Assistance
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Public Service Announcements

• OSHA 60-second Video PSA
• Developed by OSHA and World Wrestling
  Entertainment (WWE)
• Features WWE wrestler Rey Mysterio
• PSA and transcript posted to OSHAs Web site
• Regional/Area Offices working to get PSA aired in
  local communities

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OSHAs Cooperative Programs

• Alliance Program
• OSHA Strategic Partnership Program
• Voluntary Protection
• Programs
• Consultation Program SHARP

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Alliance Program

• Broadly written agreements
• Established at OSHAs National,
• Regional, Area Offices or
• by State Plan States
• Formed with trade associations,
• businesses, educational institutions,
  government agencies, unions
• 69 National Alliances
• 298 Regional and Area Office Alliances

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The Alliance Programs Impact on Workplace
Safety and Health

• Results of the Alliance Program include
• Creation of new electronic assistance tools
  (eg., eTools)
• New and updated training resources for OSHA
  staff
• Outreach to employers and employees through
  speeches,
• presentations and exhibits
• Positive media coverage of the Alliance Program

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Alliance Program Web Page
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Alliance Results and SuccessesSafety and Health
Topics Pages

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Alliance Results and SuccesseseTools
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OSHA Strategic Partnerships

• 196 active partnerships
• OSPP impacts over 5,000 employers and 575,000
  employees
• 10 National partnerships

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Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP)

• Promotes effective worksite-based
• safety and health
• Moves beyond compliance and
• calls for continuous improvement
• Supports cooperative relationship
• with management, labor, and OSHA
• Recognizes exemplary occupational
• safety and health efforts

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Consultation Program

• Through this service
• employers can find out about potential worksite
  hazards,
• improve their safety and health management
  system,
• and 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

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Safety Health and Achievement
Recognition Program (SHARP)

• Recognizes small employers who
• operate an exemplary safety and
• health management system
• Singles out organizations as a
• model for worksite safety and health
• Exempt from programmed
• inspections during the period that
• SHARP certification is valid

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Contact
Lee Anne Jillings jillings.leeanee_at_dol.gov 202-693
-2340