Working With OSHA
John Frowd
Compliance Assistance Specialist
Manhattan Area Office
212-620-3200
NYC ASSE Chapter
What is OSHA?
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Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
Responsible for worker safety and
health protection
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What does OSHA do?
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Encourages employers and employees to reduce
workplace hazards and implement new or
improve existing safety and health programs
Develops and enforces mandatory job safety and
health standards
Maintains a reporting and recordkeeping system
to monitor job-related injuries and illnesses
Provides assistance, training and other support
programs to help employers and workers
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Contact OSHA
• File Compliant/Report
Emergency
• Toll-Free Hotline (1-800321-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 Offices
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Albany
Buffalo
Long Island
Manhattan
Syracuse
Tarrytown
Region II- N.J OSHA Offices
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Avenel
Hasbrouck Heights
Marlton
Parsippany
Metro New York OSHA Area
Offices
Manhattan: 212-620-3200
Jurisdiction: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens District
Office
Tarrytown: 914-524-7510
Jurisdiction: Westchester, Bronx, Rockland
Avenel: 732-750-3270
Staten Island
Long Island: 516-334-3344
Jurisdiction: Nassau, Suffolk
Compliance Assistance
Specialists
• Work out of OSHA Area Offices
• Provide general information about OSHA
• Respond to requests for help from a variety of
groups
• Available for seminars, workshops, and
speaking events
• Promote cooperative programs and
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
programs must not encourage underreporting of injuries and
illnesses.
• Employers have established programs that unintentionally or
intentionally provide employees an incentive to not report
injuries. For example, an employer might enter all employees
who have not been injured in the previous year in a drawing to
win a prize, bonus etc.
• Section 11(c) of the OSH Act prohibits an employer from
discriminating against an employee because the employee
reports 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
in 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
OSHA Training Institute Education
Centers Web Page
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Summary
• Enforcement:
– Addressing Accidents, fatality's, Imminent danger,
Complaints, Referrals and Programmed Inspections
• Compliance assistance is working effectively to:
– Support OSHA’s enforcement and standard-setting
activities
– Support Secretary Solis’s goals of safe jobs and a
voice for workers
– Target specific industries and hazards for high impact
– Recognize exemplary workplaces and share best
practices