An Overview of OSHA's Compliance Assistance Resources 2005 National Equal Opportunity Conference August 24, 2005 9:00 AM

1. An Overview of OSHA's Compliance Assistance Resources 2005 National Equal Opportunity Conference August 24, 2005 9:00 AM – 10:15 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

2. OSHA’s Mission Assure so far as possible every working man and woman in the nation safe and healthful working conditions.

3. OSHA’s 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. OSHA Compliance Assistance (CA) Resources • OSHA Web page • CA Web page • CA Quick Start • MyOSHA • Publications • Compliance Assistance Specialists • 1-800-OSHA

7. OSHA Web Page

8. Compliance Assistance Web Page

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

10. 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

11. 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 • Heat and Cold Stress Cards • Trench Poster and Quick Card

12. Hispanic Employers and Workers Compliance Assistance

13. 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 OSHA’s Web site • Regional/Area Offices working to get PSA aired in local communities

14. OSHA’s Cooperative Programs • Alliance Program • OSHA Strategic Partnership Program • Voluntary Protection Programs • Consultation Program & SHARP

15. Alliance Program • Broadly written agreements • Established at OSHA’s 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

16. The Alliance Program’s 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

17. Alliance Program Web Page

18. Alliance Results and SuccessesSafety and Health Topics Pages

19. Alliance Results and SuccesseseTools

20. OSHA Strategic Partnerships • 196 active partnerships • OSPP impacts over 5,000 employers and 575,000 employees • 10 National partnerships

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. Contact Lee Anne Jillings jillings.leeanee@dol.gov 202-693-2340