# Presentation: 784409

## OSHA’s Impact

- Paula O. White
- Directorate of Cooperative and State Programs
- Occupational Safety & Health Administration
- for
- Printing Alliance
- September 4, 2002

## Directorate of Cooperative and State Programs (DCSP)

- Office of Small Business Assistance
- Office of Partnerships & Recognition
- Office of Outreach Services & Alliances
- Office of Training & Education
- Office of State Programs

## Office of Small Business Assistance

##  Office of Small Business Assistance

- OSHA is launching a permanent program created specifically for small enterprises.
- It will serve as one-stop shopping for OSHA compliance assistance for small business owners, including the Consultation Program.

## Consultation: for Small Businesses

- Free and confidential
- Helps employer identify and correct hazards
- Provides onsite & offsite training
- Assists employer in developing or maintaining an effective safety and health management system
- No citations issued or penalties proposed

## Office of Partnerships & Recognition

## VPP Gets Results

- Nearly 820 workplaces and 180 industries in the Federal and State Plan State programs
- Over 540,000 employees covered
- In 2001, participants achieved injury rates 54% below their industry averages, with 5,876 lost workday cases avoided

## OSHA Strategic Partnerships 

-    OSPs are voluntary, cooperative agreements between OSHA and groups of employers, employees, and other stakeholders.

## Safety & Health Achievement & Recognition Program (SHARP)

- Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement a safety and health management system
- Maintain injury and illness rates below your industry average

- Benefits:
- Removal from programmed inspection list for 1 year
- Recognition and promotion

## Office of Outreach Services and Alliances

## Outreach Services 

- Develop and implement agency-wide plan addressing assistance priorities, materials, and assignment of responsibilities.
- Establish network of contacts with key health and safety organizations and other government agencies
- Coordinate OSHA compliance assistance efforts

## Outreach & Assistance Tools

- _[www.osha.gov](http://www.osha.gov/)_
- Spanish page
- eTools
- Laws & regulations
- Training & outreach on new regs
- QuickTakes
- Compliance Assistance Specialists

## Alliances

- Focus on any combination of:
- Training & Education
- Outreach & Communication
- Promoting National Dialogue

## How Alliances Work

- Broadly-written agreement documents
- Customized implementation teams
- Consultation representative invited
- State plan representative invited
- One year, renewable
- Quarterly update meetings/telecons

## Office of Training & Education

## Office of Training and Education

- Responsibility for safety and health training programs for:
- Federal & State OSHA
-  State Consultation Staff
- Other Federal Agencies
- Private Sector

## Office of Training and Education

- OSHA Training Institute
-        Des Plaines, IL
- Education Centers
- Susan Harwood Grants
- Distance Learning

## Office of State Programs

## Office of State Programs

- Administers program for the review, approval, funding and evaluation of State OS&H plans
- 26 OSHA-approved State plans
- 23 cover private & public sector (state & local gov’t)

## State OS&H Plans 

- Section 18 of OSH Act of 1970 authorizes State plans and sets approval criteria
- Operate under authority of state law and adopt own standards
- OSHA funds 50% of the cost of state programs

## Cooperative Program Contacts 

- Office of Partnerships & Recognition
- cathy.oliver@osha.gov
- Office of Outreach Services & Alliances
- leeanne.jillings@osha.gov
- Office of Small Business Assistance
- _[tyna.coles@osha.gov](mailto:tyna.coles@osha.gov)_
- Office of Training & Education
- henry.payne@osha.gov

## Contact

- _[Paula.White@osha.gov](mailto:Paula.White@osha.gov)_
- 202-693-2200