John FrowdCompliance Assistance SpecialistManhattan Area Office212-620-3200

NYC ASSE Chapter

Working With OSHAWorking With OSHA

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What is OSHA?What is OSHA?

OOccupational ccupational SSafety and afety and HHealth ealth AAdministrationdministration

Responsible for worker safety and Responsible for worker safety and health protectionhealth protection

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What does OSHA do?What does OSHA do?

Encourages employers and employees to reduce Encourages employers and employees to reduce workplace hazards and implement new or workplace hazards and implement new or improve existing safety and health programsimprove existing safety and health programs

Develops and enforces mandatory job safety and Develops and enforces mandatory job safety and health standardshealth standards

Maintains a reporting and recordkeeping system Maintains a reporting and recordkeeping system to monitor job-related injuries and illnessesto monitor job-related injuries and illnesses

Provides assistance, training and other support Provides assistance, training and other support programs to help employers and workersprograms to help employers and workers

Contact OSHA

• File Compliant/Report Emergency

• Toll-Free Hotline (1-800-321-OSHA (English and Spanish)

• E-Correspondence (English and Spanish)

• Letter

• Regional/Area Offices

• Hispanic/ESL Coordinators

• Compliance Assistance Specialists

• Labor Liaisons

Worker Rights

Electronic Resources• Workers Page• Whistleblower Protection

Page

Additional Resources• Employee Workplace

Rights booklet• Worker Rights Fact Sheet,

Magnet, and Wallet Card• Whistleblower Fact Sheets

Region II- N.Y. OSHA OfficesRegion II- N.Y. OSHA Offices

• Albany

• Buffalo

• Long Island

• Manhattan

• Syracuse

• Tarrytown

Region II- N.J OSHA OfficesRegion II- N.J OSHA Offices

• Avenel

• Hasbrouck Heights

• Marlton

• Parsippany

Metro New York OSHA Area Offices

ManhattanManhattan: 212-620-3200Jurisdiction: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens District

Office

TarrytownTarrytown:: 914-524-7510Jurisdiction: Westchester, Bronx, Rockland

Avenel:Avenel: 732-750-3270Staten Island

Long IslandLong Island: 516-334-3344Jurisdiction: Nassau, Suffolk

Compliance Assistance Specialists

• Work out of OSHA Area Offices Work out of OSHA Area Offices

• Provide general information about OSHA Provide general information about OSHA

• Respond to requests for help from a variety of Respond to requests for help from a variety of groupsgroups

• Available for seminars, workshops, and Available for seminars, workshops, and speaking eventsspeaking events

• Promote cooperative programs and Promote cooperative programs and OSHA's training resources OSHA's training resources

Compliance Assistance Specialists

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Publications

• QuickCards

• Fact Sheets

• Booklets and Brochures

• Posters

• Safety and Health Information Bulletins

Picture of OSHA's Construction Pocket Guide

Construction-Related Publications

New Publications

• Cranes & Derricks Small Entity Compliance Guide (Mar. 2011)

• Distracted Driving – No Texting Brochure (Mar. 2011)

• Fall Protection in Residential Construction Guidance Document (Apr. 2011)

• Heat Illness Prevention Fact Sheets and Posters (English and Spanish) (Apr. 2011)

• We Are OSHA, We Can Help Brochure (English and Spanish) (Mar. 2011)

• Worker Rights Bookmark, Magnet, and Wallet Card (English, Spanish, Vietnamese) (May 2010)

Pictures of OSHA

publications

Employer Safety Incentive and

Disincentive Policies and Practices • OSHA's position is that workplace safety and health incentive OSHA's position is that workplace safety and health incentive

programs must not encourage underreporting of injuries and programs must not encourage underreporting of injuries and illnesses. illnesses.

• Employers have established programs that unintentionally or Employers have established programs that unintentionally or intentionally provide employees an incentive to not report intentionally provide employees an incentive to not report injuries. For example, an employer might enter all employees injuries. For example, an employer might enter all employees who have not been injured in the previous year in a drawing to who have not been injured in the previous year in a drawing to win a prize, bonus etc. win a prize, bonus etc.

• Section 11(c) of the OSH Act prohibits an employer from Section 11(c) of the OSH Act prohibits an employer from discriminating against an employee because the employee discriminating against an employee because the employee reports an injury or illness. 29 CFR 1904.36reports an injury or illness. 29 CFR 1904.36.

Heat Illness Prevention Campaign

OSHA’s 2011/2012 Campaign:

• Low literacy fact sheets (English and Spanish)

• Worksite and community posters (English and Spanish)

• Heat Illness Web Page• PSA (English and

Spanish)• NOAA weather alerts

OSHA Fall Prevention Campaign OSHA Fall Prevention Campaign in Constructionin Construction

“OSHA's fall prevention campaign was developed in partnership with the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and NIOSH's National Occupational Research Agenda program. OSHA and NIOSH will work with trade associations, labor unions, employers, universities, community and faith-based organizations, and consulates to provide employers and workers – especially vulnerable, low-literacy workers – with education and training on common-sense fall prevention equipment and strategies that save lives”

Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis

Transportation: Distracted Driving

• OSHA Distracted Driving Initiative

• Distracted Driving Web Page

• Distracted Driving Brochure

Outreach to Latino Workers

• OSHA has made workplace safety and health for Latino workers a priority.

• OSHA is working with the Latino community to raise awareness of workplace safety and health among the Spanish-speaking workforce.

• Workplace fatality rate for Latinos is decreasing, but is still higher than for other workers

OSHA’s Cooperative Programs

• Alliance Program

• OSHA Strategic Partnership Program

• Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP)

• OSHA Challenge Program

• On-site Consultation Program & Safety and Health Recognition Program (SHARP)

OSHA Training Institute Education Centers

• Quality, OSHA-authorized training

• Serving all OSHA Regions

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OSHA Training Institute Education Centers Web Page

Summary

• Enforcement: – Addressing Accidents, fatality's, Imminent danger, Addressing Accidents, fatality's, Imminent danger,

Complaints, Referrals and Programmed InspectionsComplaints, Referrals and Programmed Inspections

• Compliance assistance is working effectively to:– Support OSHA’s enforcement and standard-setting Support OSHA’s enforcement and standard-setting

activitiesactivities– Support Secretary Solis’s goals of safe jobs and a Support Secretary Solis’s goals of safe jobs and a

voice for workersvoice for workers– Target specific industries and hazards for high impactTarget specific industries and hazards for high impact– Recognize exemplary workplaces and share best Recognize exemplary workplaces and share best

practicespractices