# Presentation: 867899

## Extending OSHA’s Impact

- Paula O. White
- Director, Cooperative and State Programs
- USDOL-OSHA
- for
- Integrated Electrical Services

## Assistant Secretary Henshaw’s Priorities 

- Expanded outreach, education, and compliance assistance efforts
- Improved voluntary efforts with partnerships on every scale
- Leading the national dialogue on safety and health
- Strong, effective enforcement

## OSHA Reorganization:Realignment for Results

- Distinct separation of Compliance Assistance and Enforcement activities
- Consolidation of outreach and compliance assistance in single Directorate
- Creation of the new Office of Small Business

## Directorate of Cooperative and State Programs (DCSP)

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

## Alliances Are Flexible

- Few formal program requirements
- No enforcement component
- Less structured than Strategic Partnerships
- Open to all--businesses, labor groups, trade or professional organizations, universities, or other government agencies
- Low-Risk--designed to initiate dialog with OSHA, can serve as a stepping stone toward a more structured cooperative relationships

## OSHA-IEC Outreach and Communication Goals

- Develop and disseminate info
- Speak or appear together
- Promote OSHA’s cooperative programs

## OSHA-IEC Plan of Action

- Immediate and on-going cross-linking of IEC’s toolbox talks, OSHA’s eTools and TechLinks pages
- Quarterly focus on the three major areas of the Alliance:
- Fall protection
- Material-handling
- Rear-end collision

## VPP Works

- 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

## Construction in VPP SICs 1521-1799

- Sites at the end of FY 02:
- Federal: 27
- States: 17
- Employees covered at end of FY 02:
- Federal: 5955
- State: 2879
- FY 01 Rates
- DART 60% below the national average
- TCIR 64% below the national average

## VPP ConstructionPrograms

- Star & Merit
- Short Term Construction Demo
- Mobile Workforce Demo

## OSHA Strategic Partnerships 

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

## Success Story: 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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## www.osha.gov

- Compliance Assistance
- eTools
- VPP
- Partnerships
- Alliances
- Consultation Office Directory
- Events
- Publications

- News Releases
- Fact Sheets
- Standards & Guidance
- Training and outreach on new guidance & regs
- What’s New
- QuickTakes

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## Outreach Services 

- Coordinating OSHA compliance assistance efforts
- Planning Agency’s compliance assistance efforts
- Networking with key health and safety organizations and other government agencies

## Office of Training and Education

- OSHA Training Institute
- Education Centers
- Susan Harwood Grants
- Distance Learning

## Contact

- _[paula.white@osha.gov](mailto:paula.white@osha.gov)_
- 202-693-2200