We reached a similar agreement with styrene users for the voluntary reduction of styrene exposure levels. Lastly, we are promoting worksite-specific partnerships at every workplace in America through safety and health programs. As you know, safety and health programs afford employees and managers an opportunity to work together to find and fix hazards, reduce injuries and illnesses, cut costs, improve morale and increase productivity. They represent a common sense approach with a long history of success. Now, when I use that term I don't mean a paper program that just sits on a shelf.
Action is much more important than the paper.
Unless, of course, you're John Dillon, in which case the paper is pretty important. We are emphasizing safety and health programs in many New OSHA initiatives, like Cooperative Compliance Programs, Focused Inspections, the new penalty reduction system, as well as in many existing programs, like VPP and the Consultation Programs. We are also working on a proposal for a safety and health programs standard. So the New OSHA is turning to partnerships to improve worker protections in a great many ways. But of course, not every employer wants to partner with us.