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Working With OSHA

Working With OSHA. John Frowd Compliance Assistance Specialist Manhattan Area Office 212-620-3200 NYC ASSE Chapter. What is OSHA?. O ccupational S afety and H ealth A dministration Responsible for worker safety and health protection. 3. What does OSHA do?.

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Working With OSHA

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  1. Working With OSHA John Frowd Compliance Assistance Specialist Manhattan Area Office 212-620-3200 NYC ASSE Chapter

  2. What is OSHA? • Occupational Safety and Health Administration • Responsible for worker safety and health protection 3

  3. What does OSHA do? • Encourages employers and employees to reduce workplace hazards and implement new or improve existing safety and health programs • Develops and enforces mandatory job safety and health standards • Maintains a reporting and recordkeeping system to monitor job-related injuries and illnesses • Provides assistance, training and other support programs to help employers and workers 4

  4. File Compliant/Report Emergency Toll-Free Hotline (1-800-321-OSHA (English and Spanish) E-Correspondence (English and Spanish) Letter Regional/Area Offices Hispanic/ESL Coordinators Compliance Assistance Specialists Labor Liaisons Contact OSHA

  5. Worker Rights Electronic Resources • Workers Page • Whistleblower Protection Page Additional Resources • Employee Workplace Rights booklet • Worker Rights Fact Sheet, Magnet, and Wallet Card • Whistleblower Fact Sheets

  6. Region II- N.Y. OSHA Offices • Albany • Buffalo • Long Island • Manhattan • Syracuse • Tarrytown

  7. Region II- N.J OSHA Offices • Avenel • Hasbrouck Heights • Marlton • Parsippany

  8. Manhattan: 212-620-3200 Jurisdiction: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens District Office Tarrytown: 914-524-7510 Jurisdiction: Westchester, Bronx, Rockland Avenel: 732-750-3270 Staten Island Long Island: 516-334-3344 Jurisdiction: Nassau, Suffolk Metro New York OSHA Area Offices

  9. Compliance Assistance Specialists • Work out of OSHA Area Offices • 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 OSHA's training resources

  10. Compliance Assistance Specialists Screen Capture of OSHA's CAS Directory Web Page

  11. Publications • QuickCards • Fact Sheets • Booklets and Brochures • Posters • Safety and Health Information Bulletins Picture of OSHA's Construction Pocket Guide

  12. Construction-Related Publications

  13. New Publications • Cranes & Derricks Small Entity Compliance Guide (Mar. 2011) • Distracted Driving – No Texting Brochure (Mar. 2011) • Fall Protection in Residential Construction Guidance Document (Apr. 2011) • Heat Illness Prevention Fact Sheets and Posters (English and Spanish) (Apr. 2011) • We Are OSHA, We Can Help Brochure (English and Spanish) (Mar. 2011) • Worker Rights Bookmark, Magnet, and Wallet Card (English, Spanish, Vietnamese) (May 2010) Pictures of OSHA publications

  14. Employer Safety Incentive and Disincentive Policies and Practices • OSHA's position is that workplace safety and health incentive programs must not encourage underreporting of injuries and illnesses. • Employers have established programs that unintentionally or intentionally provide employees an incentive to not report injuries. For example, an employer might enter all employees who have not been injured in the previous year in a drawing to win a prize, bonus etc. • Section 11(c) of the OSH Act prohibits an employer from discriminating against an employee because the employee reports an injury or illness. 29 CFR 1904.36.

  15. Heat Illness Prevention Campaign OSHA’s 2011/2012 Campaign: • Low literacy fact sheets (English and Spanish) • Worksite and community posters (English and Spanish) • Heat Illness Web Page • PSA (English and Spanish) • NOAA weather alerts

  16. OSHA Fall Prevention Campaign in Construction “OSHA's fall prevention campaign was developed in partnership with the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and NIOSH's National Occupational Research Agenda program. OSHA and NIOSH will work with trade associations, labor unions, employers, universities, community and faith-based organizations, and consulates to provide employers and workers – especially vulnerable, low-literacy workers – with education and training on common-sense fall prevention equipment and strategies that save lives”Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis

  17. Transportation: Distracted Driving • OSHA Distracted Driving Initiative • Distracted Driving Web Page • Distracted Driving Brochure

  18. Outreach to Latino Workers • OSHA has made workplace safety and health for Latino workers a priority. • OSHA is working with the Latino community to raise awareness of workplace safety and health among the Spanish-speaking workforce. • Workplace fatality rate for Latinos is decreasing, but is still higher than for other workers

  19. OSHA’s Cooperative Programs • Alliance Program • OSHA Strategic Partnership Program • Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP) • OSHA Challenge Program • On-site Consultation Program & Safety and Health Recognition Program (SHARP)

  20. OSHA Training Institute Education Centers • Quality, OSHA-authorized training • Serving all OSHA Regions

  21. OSHA Training Institute Education Centers Web Page Screen Capture of OSHA's Training Institute Education Centers Web Page

  22. Summary • Enforcement: • Addressing Accidents, fatality's, Imminent danger, Complaints, Referrals and Programmed Inspections • Compliance assistance is working effectively to: • Support OSHA’s enforcement and standard-setting activities • Support Secretary Solis’s goals of safe jobs and a voice for workers • Target specific industries and hazards for high impact • Recognize exemplary workplaces and share best practices

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