# Presentation: 793665

## Cooperative Programs:Expanding OSHA’s Impact

**Paula O. White**
**Director, Cooperative and State Programs**
**Occupational Safety and Health Administration**
**Quarterly Alliance Program Orientation**
**May 19, 2003**

## Assistant Secretary Henshaw’sPriorities for OSHA

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

## Current OSHA Alliances

- 25 National Alliances
- 15 Ergonomic-Specific Alliances
- Other topics include:
- Biological hazards
- Lockout/tagout
- Construction hazards
- Reactive chemicals
- Falls and electrocutions
- Confined space entry

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## Newly Signed Alliances

- American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
- American Association of Occupational Health Nurses
- Air Conditioning Contractors of America
-  National Home Builders Association
- National Association of Directors of Nursing Administration/Longterm Care
- Georgetown University McDonough School of Business, Center for Business & Public Policy

## Onsite Consultation Program

*Confidential and free* for the asking to businesses that are:
- Small (<250 onsite and <500 corporation-wide)
- High-hazard industry or processes
- Committed to abating all serious hazards found
- Available in all states and territories

## 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- or off-site
- No citations issued or penalties proposed

## Partnerships and Recognition Programs

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

## Voluntary Protection Program (VPP)

- 951 workplaces in the Federal and State Plan State programs
- Over 575,000 employees covered
- In 2001, 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 4/30/03**
- 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 Jump Start
- Facilitating corporate participation
- Targeting ISO sites

## OSHA Strategic Partnership Program (OSPP)

- 185 active partnerships
- Over 257 partnerships since 1998
- 53 new partnerships in FY 02
- Average 51 new partnerships last 3 years
- 13 Partnerships with ergonomic focus

## 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%

## 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 at least 1 year
- Recognition and promotion

## Pre-SHARP Inspection Deferral

- Responsibilities:
- Begin to develop and implement a safety and health management system
- Have potential to attain injury and illness as well as total recordable case rates below your industry average
- Have potential to meet SHARP requirements within 18 months

## Benefits of Pre-SHARP Inspection Deferral

- Removal from programmed inspection list for up to 18 months
- Assistance from OSHA consultation to achieve SHARP status

## 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 Small Business Assistance

- Primary point of contact with OSHA for small business owners
- MOU with SBA
- Developing materials on ergonomics
- Developing outreach materials

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