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Analysis of OSHA State Plans, Strategic Management, and Workplace Safety Regulations

Evaluation of OSHA regulations and workplace safety strategies.

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    Analysis of OSHA State Plans, Strategic Management, and Workplace Safety Regulations Describe State Plans and discuss what must be demonstrated by the states, including the process, to be an approved OSHA State Plan. Please provide approximately 200 - 300 words and a reference citation for your source material in your response. 2.OSHA has a Strategic Management Plan for 2003 - 2008. Briefly summarize that plan and comment on its new goals and the criteria used for target industries. Have any of the new goals from this plan had, or will have, an effect on your workplace? Explain and give an example. (www.osha.gov) 1.Describe State Plans and discuss what must be demonstrated by the states, including the process, to be an approved OSHA State Plan. Please provide approximately 200 - 300 words and a reference citation for your source material in your response. Answer – Section 18 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (the Act) it encourages the States to make new plans to operate their own safety and health programs for employers in job. OSHA recommends and monitors up to 50 percent of the total operating costs of an approved plan. At present, there are 22 states and jurisdictions which are employing complete state plans and five Connecticut covering only public employees. It must be the duty of the state to set job safety and health standards which are most effective as compared to other federal standards. That’s why most of the state plans are identical to federal ones. However, states have the option to promulgate the standards which have not been covered by federal standards. (Labor U. D., n.d.) Inspection to enforce the standards which covered both state and local government employees should be conducted. It should indulge itself into operation of occupational safety and health training and education programs. Now a day a free consultation program

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    has also been provided in order to help employers to identify and correct the hazards of their workplace. Such consultation may be provided either under the plan or through a special agreement under section 21(d) of the Act. Now, in order to get the approval from OSHA, which is the first step in the state plan process, the state must ensure it to OSHA that within three years it will make investments in structural elements in the organizations for an effective and occupational safety and health programs. To name a few of these elements are appropriate legislation; regulations and procedures for standards setting, enforcement, appeal of citations and penalties; a sufficient number of qualified enforcement personnel. Once a State has completed and documented all its developmental steps, it is eligible for certification . It consists of only attestation of the documents related to the structural completeness of the plan. Once state becomes capable of enforcing these standards independently, OSHA would ask for “operational status agreement” with the state. Its purpose is to exercise of certain or may be all of those activities which were at discretion of federal enforcement. The ultimate accreditation of a State's plan is called final approval. OSHA grants final approval to a state under section 18 (e) of the Act. OSHA relinquishes its authority to the state in terms of cover ing occupational safet y and health matters. After at least one year following certification, the State becomes eligible for final approval if OSHA determines that it is providing, in actual operation, worker protection "at least as effective" as the protection provided by the federal program. It is in the interest of the State to meet the compliance 100% in terms of staffing levels or benchmarks. They may participate in OSHA’s inspection of data system before full and final grant of approval by OSHA.

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    Employees finding workplace safety and health hazards may file a formal complaint with the appropriate plan State or with the appropriate OSHA regional administrator. Complaints will be investigated and should include the name of the workplace, type(s) of hazard(s) observed and any other pertinent information. OSHA investigates all such complaints, and where complaints are found to be valid, requires appropriate corrective action on the part of the State. (Labor, 1999) 2.OSHA has a Strategic Management Plan for 2003 - 2008. Briefly summarize that plan and comment on its new goals and the criteria used for target industries. Have any of the new goals from this plan had, or will have, an effect on your workplace? Explain and give an example. (www.osha.gov) Please provide approximately 200 - 300 words and a reference citation for your source material in your response. ANSWER - OSHA's vision is that "Every employer in the nation recognizes that occupational safety and health adds value to American businesses, workplaces and workers' lives." OSHA has designed a new five year strategic management plan to achieve their objective and to provide a strong support to department of labor. It helps in fostering quality good quality at the workplace. It should be safe and healthy. The strategic plan of 2003 - 08 focu sed on reducing fatalities, injuries an d other harms to the employees. Asses sing the Situation The Strategic Management Plan is based on an analysis of the current safety and health landscape, occupational trends, emerging issues and agency priorities. While analysing, the whole assessment would also include other emergency situations as well such as violence at workplace, any accident related to workplace, etc. Since 2008, OSHA started focussing on reducing specific areas instead of broader goals. Its main target is to bring down the fatalities due to construction by 3 percent and general industry fatalities by 1 per

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