# Presentation: 305226

## OSHA Update:Cooperative and State Programs

**Paula O. White**
**Director, Cooperative and State Programs**
**Occupational Safety and Health Administration**
**2003 National Safety Congress**

## Alliances

- Broadly written agreements 	established
- 	at the National, Regional or Area offices
- Goals focus on:
- Training and education
- Outreach and communication
- Promoting the national dialogue
- Customized implementation teams:
- Two-year, renewable
- Quarterly update meetings or conference calls

## National Alliances

## Regional Alliances

## Signings this Week

- International Safety Equipment Association
- National Safety Council
- Abbott Laboratories

## Some Alliance Results

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

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## Voluntary Protection Program (VPP)

- 997 workplaces in the Federal and State Plan State programs
- Over half-million employees covered
- In 2001, participants achieved injury rates 54% below their industry averages, with 5,876 lost workday cases avoided

## What’s Next for VPP?

- VPP Challenge
- VPP Corporate
- VPP Construction

## OSHA Strategic Partnership Program (OSPP)

- 203 active partnerships
- Over 276 partnerships since 1998
- 54 new partnerships in FY 02
- Average 51 new partnerships last 3 years
- 14 Partnerships with ergonomic focus

## National Partnerships

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

## 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%

## 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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## 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

## 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

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## Contact

**Paula White**
- _[white.](mailto:Paula.white@osha.gov)__**p**__[aula@dol.gov](mailto:aula@dol.gov)_
**202-693-2200**