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OSHA UPDATE

OSHA UPDATE. August 17, 2007. OSHA Personnel changes . New Regional Administrator for Dallas Region 6 Dean Mc Daniel. Office Address & Phone Numbers: 10810 Executive Center Drive Danville Bldg 2, Suite 206 Little Rock, AR 72211 Telephone: (501) 224-1841

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OSHA UPDATE

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  1. OSHA UPDATE August 17, 2007

  2. OSHA Personnel changes • New Regional Administrator for Dallas Region 6 • Dean Mc Daniel

  3. Office Address & Phone Numbers: 10810 Executive Center Drive Danville Bldg 2, Suite 206 Little Rock, AR 72211 Telephone: (501) 224-1841 Fax: (501) 224-4431

  4. Office Staff: Assistant Area Directors: David Bates David Trigg Compliance Assistance Specialist (CAS): Carroll Jones, former CSHO, SGE Eight CSHOs One serves each as Duty Officer Have announce CSHO-safety position

  5. OUTREACH 15% of office time to be spent in outreach 100% of time of CAS to be outreach Partnerships: 5 Alliances: 8 Tom Staggs, VPP Coordinator, 52 VPP STAR Sites in Arkansas

  6. INSPECTION PROGRAMS • Old and continuing Amputations Specific Site Targeting (SST) Specific Site Targeting for Employers with less than 40 employees • New Special Emphasis These are Regional Emphasis Programs (REPs)/National Emphasis Programs (NEPs) established due primarily to high rates of fatalities or accidents.

  7. Construction (old & new) • At least 50% of inspections still to be construction SICs • Still using Dodge Report site • More emphasis being placed on “referral” type inspections • More emphasis on Residential Construction (RESCON) • Have conducted 110 construction inspections.

  8. Oil and Gas Well Drilling • Tremendous increase in oil and gas well drilling • Scheduling to be done basically by dividing state into zones. Do certain number of inspections within one zone, then move to another • CSHOs have received special training in oil and gas well drilling, even some hands-on training • LRAO has conducted nine of these inspections • LRAO working on partnerships with major companies in state.

  9. Logging and Sawmills • Most larger sawmills in state have been inspected within the past ten years • Difficulty in establishing objective criteria for scheduling inspections • Working through larger sawmills, pulp and paper mills to contact loggers for outreach training • Have not conducted any so for this year • Ship building and ship repair – none in Arkansas, so we aren’t doing this one.

  10. National Emphasis Program-Refineries • National Directive has been issued • Two refineries in Arkansas • CSHOs assigned to conduct these inspections have received intensisve training, and a team will a CSHO/Team Leader experienced in PSM/Refineries

  11. -Nationally, OSHA is to conduct 60% of these inspections in FY 2008 and 40% in FY 2009. However, the LRAO will try to conduct both inspections in FY2008. • An NEP is scheduled to be issued soon covering PSM in chemical plants. After the refineries are completed, the inspections under this NEP will be conducted.

  12. WHY HAVE NOT CONDUCTED MORE REP’s Complaints Phone/Fax: 157 Inspections: 56 Duty officer – 1 CSHO each week Fatalities – 27 Catastrophes- 1

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