Safety and Health Programs

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   Safety and Health Programs

   • MODULE 7
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   Brainstorm

   • What makes a good safety and health program?
   • What does a good program do for you?
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   Benefits of Effective Safety and Health Programs

   • Reduce injuries & illnesses
   • Improve morale & productivity
   • Reduce workers’ compensation costs
   • Show good faith efforts
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   Exemplary Workplaces:

   • Assign responsibility to managers, supervisors, and workers
   • Inspect regularly to control hazards
   • Train employees to recognize and avoid hazards
   • Provide systematic policies, procedures and practices
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   Safety and Health Program Guidelines

   • Systematic policies and procedures
   • Recognize hazards
   • Protect employees
   • Address all hazards
   • Beyond law
   • Including hazards caused by change
   • More important to be effective than written
   • Guidelines available from OSHA
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   Major Elements

   • Management commitment & employee involvement
   • Worksite analysis
   • Hazard prevention & control
   • Safety and health training
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   Management Commitment / Employee Involvement

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   Management Commitment and Employee Involvement

   • Management:
   • Regards worker safety and health as a fundamental value
   • Applies commitment to safety and health equally with other objectives
   • Employees:
   • Develop and express own commitment to safety for selves and others
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   Management Commitment

   • Management provides:
   • Motivation/Leadership
   • Resources
   • Policy Statement
   • Clear Goals & Objectives
   • Employees commit to safety for selves and co-workers
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    Management Commitment

    • Demonstrated by:
    • Being visibly involved at all levels
    • Leading by example
    • Assigning responsibilities and accountability at all levels
    • Providing authority and resources to those responsible
    • Communicating program goals
    • Leading periodic reviews
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    Employee Involvement

    • Active roles:
    • Workplace inspections
    • Hazard analysis
    • Developing safe work rules
    • Training coworkers and new hires
    • Loss or Near Loss investigations
    • New equipment purchase / design / use
    • Participating in program review
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    Supervisor Responsibilities

    • Analyze work
    • to identify potential hazards in area of responsibility
    • Maintain physical protections in work areas
    • Reinforce employee training
    • performance feedback
    • enforcement of safe work practices
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    • Worksite Analysis
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    Worksite Analysis

    • Examine the worksite and identify:
    • Existing hazards
    • Conditions & operations where changes might occur to create hazards
    • Analyze the work & worksite to anticipate & prevent harmful occurrences
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    Comprehensive Survey

    • Conduct a comprehensive baseline survey
    • Job Hazard Analysis
    • Who may help you:
    • OSHA Consultation Program
    • Insurance companies
    • Consultants
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    Safety & Health Inspections

    • Conduct regular site inspections (usually weekly)
    • Establish daily work area inspection procedures
    • Develop & use a checklist
    • Provide a reliable hazard reporting system
    • Employees notify management
    • No fear of reprisal
    • Timely & appropriate responses
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    Additional Worksite Analysis

    • Investigate accidents & “near misses”
    • Identify causes & means for prevention
    • Analyze injury & illness trends
    • Identify & prevent common cause patterns
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    • Hazard Prevention & Control
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    Hazard Prevention & Control

    • Recognition
    • Determine that a hazard or potential hazard exists
    • Elimination
    • Where feasible, prevent hazards by effective design of job or jobsite
    • Control
    • If the hazard cannot be eliminated, use hazard controls
    • Eliminate or control hazards in a timely manner
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    Hazard Prevention & Control

    • Hierarchy of controls:
    • Engineering controls
    • Administrative controls
    • Personal protective equipment (PPE)
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    Engineering Controls

    • Remove Employee from Hazard
    • Guards
    • Barriers
    • Work Area Design
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    Administrative Controls

    • Procedures
    • Rotation
    • Breaks
    • Relief Workers
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    Personal Protective Equipment

    • Third line of defense relies on:
    • Correct choice of equipment
    • Correct usage
    • Replacement and maintenance
    • Awareness of when and why necessary
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    Hazard Prevention Planning

    • Facility & equipment maintenance
    • Emergency planning
    • Training & drills as needed
    • Medical program
    • First aid on site
    • Physician & emergency care nearby
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    • Safety & Health Training
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    Safety & Health Training

    • Address Safety & Health responsibilities of all personnel
    • Incorporate it into other training & job performance/practice
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    Safety & Health Orientation

    • Employees must understand
    • Hazards they may be exposed to
    • Employee safety and health responsibilities
    • Operating procedures and safeguards
    • Exits and emergency procedures
    • Orientation training must be given to
    • site workers
    • contract workers
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    Safety & Health Training

    • Documentation where required
    • Reinforcing employee training:
    • Continual feedback
    • Refresher training as needed
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    • Safety & Health Program Resources
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    Resources Available

    • OSHA Safety & Health Management Guidelines (Appendix A)
    • Small Business Handbook
    • Sample safety & health programs
    • Compliance Assistance Quick Start
    • Customize and apply to your situation!
    • OSHA Consultation (OSHCON)
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    • Related OSHA Programs
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    OSHA Programs

    • Alliances
    • Strategic Partnerships
    • VPP
    • OSHA Consultation
    • SHARP
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    Alliances

    • Organizations committed to workplace safety and health
    • Collaborate with OSHA to prevent injuries and illnesses in the workplace
    • Reach out to, educate, and lead the nation's employers and their employees in improving and advancing workplace safety and health.
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    Benefits of an Alliance

    • Build trusting, cooperative relationships with OSHA
    • Network with others committed to workplace safety and health
    • Leverage resources to maximize worker safety and health protection
    • Gain recognition as proactive leaders in safety and health
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    How Alliances Work

    • OSHA and organization define, implement and meet short and long-term goals from three categories:
    • Training and education
    • Outreach and communication
    • Promote the National Dialogue on Workplace Safety and Health
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    Getting Started with Alliances

    • National alliances
    • Office of Outreach Services and Alliances (202) 693-2340
    • Regional or local alliances
    • OSHA regional office
    • Region VI contacts: link
    • State plan alliances also exist
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    OSHA Strategic Partnerships (OSPP)

    • Extended, voluntary, cooperative relationship
    • Groups of employers, employees, and employee representatives
    • May have 1 business or many stakeholders
    • Common goal
    • Plans for achieving goal
    • Cooperation in implementation
    • Most are small businesses <50 workers
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    OSHA Strategic Partnerships

    • Many focus on Strategic Plan areas of concern
    • Areas of Emphasis
    • Including Oil and Gas Field Services
    • Targeted Areas and High Incident/Severity Areas
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    Elements of Partnerships

    • Must either
    • Implement effective workplace safety and health management system or
    • address a specific hazard
    • Core elements required include
    • Goals, strategies, performance measures
    • Evaluation and OSHA verification
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    Getting Started with Partnerships

    • Contact OSHA
    • National or regional contact information
    • Identify goals, strategies, measures
    • Identify partners
    • Draft and submit application
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    Voluntary Protection Program (VPP)

    • Recognizes exemplary safety and health programs
    • Cooperation: management, labor, OSHA
    • Site with comprehensive safety and health management system implemented
    • Removes routine inspections
    • 13 VPP Star sites in SIC 13
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    VPP Process

    • Application and S&H program review
    • Written program and onsite implementation
    • Review by OSHA and SGE
    • Levels available
    • Star – exemplary, self-sufficient, safer than average; evaluations every 3-5 years
    • Merit – potential to meet Star within 3 years; evaluations every 18-24 months
    • Star Demonstration
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    VPP Innovations

    • Special Government Employees (SGE)
    • Volunteers from other VPP sites
    • Work with OSHA on onsite evaluations
    • Mentoring
    • Matching current and potential VPP sites
    • Safety and Health Management course
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    OSHA Consultation

    • Separate from compliance inspectors
    • Free, confidential services:
    • Recognition of potential hazards
    • Suggest methods and resources for solutions
    • Help with safety and health program
    • Written report
    • Training/education
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    OSHA Consultation

    • Operated by states
    • Obligation: commitment to correcting serious hazards
    • Plan / schedule to control serious hazards
    • Benefit: possible one-year exclusion from programmed inspections
    • No results reported to inspectors
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    Achievement Recognition Program (SH ARP)

    • Operated by Consultation
    • Small employers with exemplary safety and health management systems
    • Exemption from programmed inspections for 1 year
    • Renewable for 1-2 years with evaluations
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    Getting Started with SHARP

    • Request a consultation visit and survey
    • Involve employees
    • Correct hazards identified
    • Maintain safety and health program meeting 1989 guidelines
    • Lower injury/illness and lost workday rates below national average
    • Notify consultation office before changes