# Presentation: 498958

## Cooperative Programs:Expanding OSHA’s Impact

**Paula O. White**
**Director, Cooperative and State Programs**
**Occupational Safety and Health Administration**
**Quarterly Alliance Program Orientation**
**December 11, 2003**

## OSHA’s Intervention Strategies

- Expanded outreach, education, and compliance assistance efforts
- Improved voluntary and partnership efforts
- Strong, effective, and fair enforcement

## OSHA’s Strategic Management Plan

- Reduce fatality rates 15% and injury/illness rates 20% through:
- Direct intervention
- Compliance assistance, cooperative programs and strong leadership
- Strengthened agency capabilities and infrastructure

## Targeting Non-traditional Issues

- Workplace motor vehicle accidents
- Workplace violence
- Emergency preparedness and response
- Youth

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## Most Recently Signed National Alliances

- Association of Diving Contractors International
- Society for Chemical Hazard Communication
- Roadwork Work Zone Safety and Health Coalition
- American Heart Association

## Some Alliance Results

- The Society of the Plastics Industry
- Airlines Industry
- Dow Chemical Company

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## S.O.S.

- Help us compile:
- Success stories—brief anecdotes for the Web
- Case studies—rigorous accountings making the business case for a culture of workplace safety and health

## Partnerships and Recognition Programs

- Voluntary Protection Programs
- OSHA Strategic Partnerships
- Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program

## Voluntary Protection Program (VPP)

- 1,043 workplaces in the Federal and State Plan State programs
- Over half-million employees covered
- In 2002, participants achieved injury rates 54% below their industry averages, with 5,876 lost workday cases avoided

## INDUSTRIES IN THE VPPFEDERAL ONLY

**Number of Sites as of 11/30/03**
- Source: OSHA, Office of Partnerships & Recognition

**Chemical -**

**Construction -**

**Textiles -**

**Wood Products -**

**Paper Products -**

**- Other Manufacturing **

**- Food Products**

**- Misc. Industries**

**- Warehouse & Storage**

**- Petroleum**

**- Electricity**

**- Services**

**Other**

**--  Plastics**

## Citizen’s Memorial Health Care 	

- Implemented comprehensive ergo program
- Over a five year period (1994-1999)
- Reduced lost workday cases from over 200 to 39
- Reduced lifting injuries by 50%
- Direct savings of $150,000 in Worker’s Comp
- Current total rate is 57% and lost workday rate is 37% below the national average for their industry

## What’s Next for VPP?

- VPP Challenge
- VPP Corporate
- VPP Construction

## Expected Impact of VPP Challenge

- Easy access to mentors
- Recognition for reaching milestones
- Improvements in safety and health

## VPP Corporate Program 

- Increase corporate commitment to VPP
- Eliminate redundancy in applications from the same corporation
- Streamline OSHA application review and onsite evaluation process

## Next Steps for VPP Construction

- Develop a VPP Challenge module for construction
- Design a more flexible program
- Increase construction participation in VPP

## OSHA Strategic Partnership Program (OSPP)

- 209 active partnerships
- Over 292 partnerships since 1998
- 55 new partnerships in FY 03
- 16 Partnerships with ergonomic focus

## National Partnerships

- Koch Industries
- Johnson & Johnson
- UAW-Ford/Visteon
- US Postal Service

## Idaho OSHA-General Contractor Partnership Program	

- Reduced construction fatalities
- Improved OSHA’s relationship with 	stakeholders
- Fostered other partnerships
- Saved contractors money

## Fatality Rate

-   2.1                                 1.0                                 0.42

-  **per 10K Employees**

**Years**

## Idaho Claims Rate

**Year**

**Injuries per 100 Employees**

-     25.0    21.0     21.0    20.9    201   18.9    17.8    15.1    15.2   14.9  14.2

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## UAW-Ford-Visteon Partnership

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- Vehicle operations
- Ergo lost time rate 	3.4	   0.9		74%
- Ergo severity rate	54.2	  12.0		78%
- Power Train
- Ergo lost time rate	0.8	   0.2		75%
- Ergo severity rate	11.5     3.2		72%

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## Office of Small Business Assistance

- Outreach—become the go-to office for small businesses and their associations
- Advocating for Small Business—in SBA hearings, SBREFA hearings, and Regulatory Enforcement Fairness hearings
- Communication—showcasing SHARP sites, strong Web presence, videos

## Consultation: Help for Small Businesses

- Helps employer identify and correct hazards
- Identifies sources for further assistance
- Assists employer in developing or maintaining an effective safety and health management system
- Offers training—on-site or off-site
- No citations issued or penalties proposed

## Safety & Health Achievement Recognition Program (SHARP)

- Develop and implement a safety and health management system
- Maintain injury and illness rates below the industry average
- Removed from programmed inspection list for at least 1 year
- Recognition and promotion

## Laser Technologies, Inc.

- 1993: 60-70 lost workdays/year
- 1994: qualified for SHARP
- 1994-present:
- 0 lost workdays
- 20% lower WC premiums
- Dramatically lower turnover
- Company quadrupled in size

## Office of Training & Education

- Training for the OSHA family
- Education Centers
- Compliance assistance materials
- Training grants

## Compliance Assistance

- Compliance Assistance Specialists
- e-Tools & Safety & Health Topic Pages
- e-Correspondence
- Web: _[www.osha.gov](http://www.osha.gov/)_

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## Contact

- Paula White
- white.paula_[@dol.gov](mailto:aula@dol.gov)_
- 202-693-2200