OSHA at 40: Advancing Safety and Health Initiatives

1. Chicagoland Safety and Health Conference September 2010 Richard E. Fairfax, CIH Deputy Assistant Secretary Occupational Safety and Health Administration

2. OSHA at 40 • Recent workplace tragedies: • Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster • 29 Coal Miners killed • Oil rig explosion south of Louisiana • 11 workers killed • Anacortes Refinery fire in Washington State • 7 workers killed • February Kleen Energy • 6 workers killed

3. OSHA at 40 • These were the headlines that we were reading • But … we also know that 14 workers lose their lives in preventable accidents everyday • Close to 100 deaths every week • Our Mission, simply put is to protect workers from death, injury, and illness

4. OSHA at 40 • Secretary Solis’ vision is “Good Jobs for Everyone.” • At OSHA, we understand that a job cannot be a good job unless it is a safe job.

5. OSHA at 40 • Dr. Michaels Vision • Stronger enforcement: Some employers need incentives to do the right thing. • Ensure that workers have a voice • Refocus and strengthen our compliance assistance programs • Change workplace culture: Employers must “find and fix” workplace hazards

6. OSHA at 40 • Develop innovative approaches to addressing new (and old) hazards: Improve Intra-Agency Collaboration • Improve and modernize workplace injury and illness tracking: Strengthen our focus on accurate recordkeeping • Strengthen OSHA’s use of science

7. OSHA at 40 • Strengthen state plan states • Conduct our work with transparency, openness, integrity, and humility

8. Record Keeping • Last fall we launched the Record Keeping NEP • Looking at under reporting and non reporting • Also looking at discouraging workers from reporting • Incentive programs • Looking at changing the criteria for these inspections • RK Task group • VPP and Incentive Programs

9. OSHA Emphasis • New emphasis on enforcement and standard setting • Increased inspections • Evaluating state plan states effectiveness • Regions have completed their evaluations of the state plan states • Reports are being reviewed in Washington

10. OSHA Emphasis • Not moving away from the voluntary protection programs • Consultation Program • Voluntary Protection Program - VPP • Partnerships • Alliances

11. OSHA Emphasis • OSHA announced that we will begin the process of developing a rule that would mandate employers to develop, implement, and maintain an effective worker Injury and Illness Prevention Program (I2P2) • Systematic approach to safety and health

12. OSHA Emphasis • Injury and Illness Prevention Program • Silica • Beryllium • PELs • Confined Space in Construction • Infectious Diseases • Looking into a standard related to the Kleen Energy explosion • Modernizing recordkeeping

13. FY 2010 (Oct 1 – Aug 26)Federal OSHA Inspection Data

14. FY 2006 – FY 2010Inspections Conducted

15. FY 2006 – FY 2010% Programmed vs. % Unprogrammed

16. FY 2006 – FY 2010Percent Complaint Inspections

17. FY 2006 – FY 2010% Inspections In-Compliance

18. FY 2006 – FY 2010Total Violations Issued

19. FY 2006 – FY 2010% Total Violations Issued As Serious

20. FY 2006 – FY 2010% Total Violations Issued As Serious, Willful, and Repeat

21. FY 2006 – FY 2010Percent Inspections With Violations Contested

22. FY 2006 – FY 2010Average Penalty Per Serious Violation(Private Sector)

23. FY 2006 – FY 2010Percent Construction Inspections

24. FY 2006 – FY 2010Significant Cases

25. Egregious Cases 18* 15 * FY 2010 Figures Reflect Year To Date Actual Totals & Projected End Of Year Totals

26. FY 2006 – FY 2010Fatality Investigations

27. Scaffolding Fall Protection Hazard Communication Respiratory Protection Ladders Lockout/Tagout Electrical, Wiring Methods Powered Industrial Trucks Electrical, General Requirements Machine Guarding FY 2010Top 10 Most Cited Standards

28. Enforcement Activities - Construction • Cranes and Derricks Standard published July 28th • Starting work on construction confined space final standard • Emergency Temporary standard related to the CSB recommendation for Kleen Energy • Developing a Nail Gun safe use guidance document • Revising the Steel Erection Directive • Revising the residential fall protection directive

29. Enforcement Activities - Construction • Construction targeting • We are looking to see if there are better ways to target.

30. Enforcement Activities • SVEP • In effect • Penalties • Piloting the I.T. System in three Area Offices • Roll out on October 1st

31. Enforcement Activities • Corporate Wide Settlement Agreements • Tied into the SVEP • Looking for systemic patterns of violations • OSHA can now approach employers to enter into a corporate agreement • Enterprise Settlement agreements

32. Enforcement Activities • NEP to focus on new buttered flavored popcorn flavorings • Isocyanates NEP • Updating the TB Compliance Directive and the Bloodborne pathogens compliance directive • Evaluating the Amputations NEP • Possible Cranes and Derricks NEP • Developing the compliance directive • Developing compliance officer training

33. Other Items of Interest • Inspection Numbers for FY 2011 • FOM

34. OSHA Emphasis - PSM • Refinery NEP - in effect only in Region VI • Looking into follow up inspection • Looking at a new NEP on refineries • Still finding the same problems that we did at the start of the NEP

35. OSHA Emphasis - PSM • Chemical Plant NEP • Just extended the pilot • Finding same problems as in the refinery NEP • Process hazard analysis • Management of change • Safety instrumented systems • training

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