Introduction to OSHA Video
Summary
TLDRThis video by National Safety Compliance educates viewers on OSHA's role in safeguarding the US workforce. It covers OSHA's history, standards, record-keeping requirements, enforcement methods, and compliance strategies. The video highlights OSHA's impact, reducing workplace fatalities by over 60% and injuries by 40%. It also discusses the importance of written programs, hazard assessments, and training to maintain workplace safety, emphasizing the significance of compliance in preventing citations and penalties.
Takeaways
- 📜 The Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) was established in 1970 to create a nationwide program to protect workers from job-related death, injury, and illness.
- 🛡️ OSHA's mission is comprehensive, including setting safety and health standards, conducting inspections, maintaining recordkeeping, and conducting research on occupational safety and health.
- 🚨 OSHA uses enforcement, outreach education, compliance assistance, and partnerships to reduce workplace injuries, illnesses, and deaths.
- 📉 Since 1971, OSHA has significantly contributed to reducing workplace fatalities by over 60% and occupational injury and illness rates by 40%.
- 🏢 The Occupational Safety and Health Act covers most private sector employers and their employees, with some exceptions like self-employed individuals and certain federal agency workers.
- 📋 OSHA issues standards that require employers to maintain safe conditions and adopt practices necessary to protect workers, including the provision and use of personal protective equipment.
- 📝 Employers are legally required to comply with all OSHA standards and regulations, including maintaining accurate records of workplace injuries and illnesses as per CFR 1904.
- 🔍 OSHA conducts inspections, often without advance notice, to identify unsafe conditions and issue citations and penalties if violations are found.
- 🛑 Employers can avoid citations and penalties by establishing and maintaining written programs that cover most OSHA standards and ensuring they are current and utilized.
- 👷♂️ Training is a critical component of OSHA compliance, with requirements for almost all standards, emphasizing the importance of documenting training to ensure effectiveness.
- 📚 The provided workbook offers additional information on various OSHA standards and safety topics, serving as a resource but not a substitute for legal advice.
Q & A
What is the purpose of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) of 1970?
-The purpose of the OSHA Act of 1970 was to establish a nationwide Federal program to protect almost the entire workforce from job-related death, injury, and illness by creating standardized regulations and guidelines for workplace safety and health.
What was the situation of workplace safety before the Occupational Safety and Health Act was passed?
-Before the OSHA Act, job safety and health issues were mainly decided by individual companies without standardized regulations or guidelines. Some companies worked to create safe workplaces, while others saw it as a financial burden and unnecessary, leading to a hit-and-miss approach to employee health and safety.
What is the role of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)?
-OSHA is the federal agency established to administer the Occupational Safety and Health Act. It is responsible for creating and enforcing occupational safety and health standards, conducting inspections and investigations, ensuring employers maintain records of occupational injuries and illnesses, and conducting research related to occupational safety and health.
How does OSHA help to reduce injuries, illnesses, and deaths on the job?
-OSHA uses three basic strategies: enforcement that is strong, fair, and effective; providing outreach education and compliance assistance; and utilizing partnerships, alliances, and other cooperative and voluntary programs.
What progress has been made in occupational health and safety since OSHA's creation?
-Since OSHA's creation in 1971, there has been substantial progress, with workplace fatalities cut by more than 60% and occupational injury and illness rates by 40%, despite an increase in the US employment from 56 million to over 135 million employees.
What are OSHA standards and why are they important for employers?
-OSHA standards are mandated laws and rules that require employers to maintain conditions or adopt practices necessary to protect workers on the job. Employers must be familiar with and comply with these standards applicable to their establishments and ensure that employees have and use personal protective equipment when required.
Which states have their own job safety and health programs approved by OSHA?
-There are currently 22 states and jurisdictions operating complete State plans covering both the private sector and state and local government employees, and four states (Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and the Virgin Islands) which cover public employees only.
What are the types of violations for which an employer can be fined under OSHA standards?
-There are eight types of violations for which an employer can be fined, and penalties can range from $0 to $500,000 depending on the type and severity of the violation. Additional penalties can be imposed for violations such as falsifying records, reports, or applications, and assaulting or interfering with a compliance officer.
What is the importance of maintaining records on workplace injuries and illnesses as per the OSHA Act?
-Maintaining records on workplace injuries and illnesses is essential for an effective national program of prevention. It allows the Secretary of Labor to compile accurate statistics and make periodic reports on such occurrences, which helps in identifying trends and areas for improvement in workplace safety.
What steps can employers take to avoid receiving citations and penalties from OSHA?
-Employers can avoid citations and penalties by establishing and maintaining written programs that cover most OSHA standards, ensuring that these programs are current, utilized, reviewed, and updated as necessary. Additionally, conducting hazard assessments, providing appropriate personal protective equipment, and ensuring proper training and documentation of training are crucial.
What is the significance of training in compliance with OSHA standards?
-Training is a critical aspect of OSHA compliance, as OSHA imposes training and education requirements for almost all standards. Documentation of training helps determine who needs additional training, when updates are necessary, and can evaluate employee work performance. An accurate and complete training program can significantly benefit a company in maintaining a safe and healthy workplace.
Outlines
📚 Introduction to OSHA and Workplace Safety
Jim Bratton introduces the National Safety Compliance program, aiming to educate on OSHA standards and health and safety issues in various workplaces. The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 is highlighted as a landmark legislation that established a nationwide federal program to protect employees from job-related injuries and illnesses. The video will cover OSHA's history, its protective standards, recordkeeping requirements, enforcement mechanisms, compliance strategies, and additional relevant information for companies. The evolution of workplace health and safety from the Industrial Revolution to the present day is also discussed, emphasizing the continuous need for updated standards and guidelines due to new technologies and workforce dynamics.
🛡️ OSHA Standards and Enforcement
This paragraph delves into the specifics of OSHA standards, which are mandatory requirements designed to protect workers. Employers must be familiar with and comply with these standards, including providing personal protective equipment when necessary. The Occupational Safety and Health Act's jurisdiction is explained, covering private sector employers and employees in the U.S., with some states operating their own OSHA-approved programs. The importance of recordkeeping for workplace injuries and illnesses is underscored, as is the role of the Bureau of Labor Statistics in compiling this data. OSHA's enforcement methods, including inspections, citations, and penalties, are detailed, highlighting the agency's efforts to ensure compliance and workplace safety.
🚨 OSHA Inspections and Compliance
The process of OSHA inspections is outlined, from the priority system used to determine which workplaces are inspected to the steps taken during an inspection. Employers are advised on how to respond to OSHA compliance officers, emphasizing cooperation to ensure worker safety. The types of violations and corresponding penalties are explained, with a focus on the importance of having established written programs for key OSHA standards. The necessity of hazard assessments and personal protective equipment is also discussed, along with the documentation required to demonstrate compliance and avoid penalties.
🎓 Training and Documentation for OSHA Compliance
The final paragraph focuses on the importance of training and documentation in meeting OSHA standards. It stresses that employers must not only have written programs but also ensure they are current, utilized, and updated. The significance of hazard assessment and personal protective equipment standards is reiterated, along with the need for written certifications of assessments. Training is identified as a critical component of OSHA compliance, with the suggestion that all training be documented regardless of specific OSHA requirements. The video concludes by highlighting the workbook provided with the video, which offers additional information on various OSHA standards and safety topics, and reminds viewers that the information is not legal advice but is intended to provide insight and guidance.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡OSHA
💡Occupational Safety and Health Act
💡Standards
💡Recordkeeping
💡Enforcement
💡Compliance
💡Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
💡Hazard Communication
💡Training
💡Inspections
💡Citations and Penalties
Highlights
Introduction to National Safety Compliance and the purpose of the program to provide basic information about OSHA standards and workplace health and safety issues.
History of OSHA, including the 1970 Occupational Safety and Health Act aimed at establishing a nationwide federal program to protect the workforce.
The evolution of workplace health and safety from the Industrial Revolution to the present day, emphasizing the need for revised standards with new technologies and workforce changes.
Establishment of OSHA in 1971 as a special agency within the Labor Department to administer the Occupational Safety and Health Act.
OSHA's comprehensive purposes, including the establishment of occupational safety and health standards, inspections, investigations, and research.
OSHA's three basic strategies for reducing injuries, illnesses, and deaths on the job: enforcement, outreach education, and compliance assistance, and partnerships.
Progress made by OSHA since 1971, including a significant reduction in workplace fatalities and injury and illness rates.
OSHA standards requiring employers to maintain safe conditions and adopt practices necessary to protect workers, including the provision of personal protective equipment.
Coverage of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, including private sector employers and employees in the 50 states and certain territories under federal authority.
State plans for job safety and health programs, with 22 states and jurisdictions operating complete state plans and four covering public employees only.
Exemptions from the OSH Act, including self-employed individuals, family members of farm employers, and certain workers regulated by other federal agencies.
The importance of recordkeeping for workplace injuries and illnesses as mandated by OSHA, and the role of the Bureau of Labor Statistics in compiling statistics.
OSHA's enforcement methods, including workplace inspections, citations, penalties, and the process for conducting inspections and investigations.
The priority system OSHA uses for conducting inspections, focusing on imminent danger situations, catastrophes, fatalities, complaints, and programmed inspections.
The process following an OSHA inspection, including discussions with employers about observed conditions, issuance of citations and proposed penalties, and appeal rights.
The types of violations and corresponding penalties that employers can face, ranging from $0 to $500,000 depending on the violation's severity.
Strategies to avoid OSHA citations and penalties, such as establishing written programs for OSHA standards, conducting hazard assessments, and ensuring proper use of personal protective equipment.
The importance of training and education in compliance with OSHA standards, and the need for uniform documentation of training to determine additional training needs and evaluate performance.
Conclusion and additional resources provided by National Safety Compliance, including a workbook with information on various OSHA standards and safety topics.
Transcripts
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hello my name is Jim Bratton and I
represent National safety compliance
we've put together this program to
provide you with some basic information
about Osha Osha standards and other
health and safety issues as they apply
to various workplaces in this video I'll
tell you a little of the history behind
osia how osia protects employees through
what is known as standards some of the
osia recordkeeping requirements how OSHA
enforces the standards what you can do
to comply with osia standards and a few
other things you should know about OSHA
as they relate to your company
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in 1970 Congress passed the occupational
safety and health act the purpose of
this legislation was to establish a
nationwide Federal program to protect
almost the entire Workforce from job
related death injury and illness before
this act job safety and health issues
were mainly decided by individual
companies without any standardized regul
ulations or guidelines employee health
and safety was hit and miss while some
companies and industries work to create
a safe workplace others felt it was a
financial burden and was unnecessary
this was the backdrop for the creation
of oan but there were many events that
led to the occupational safety and
health act starting with the Industrial
Revolution in the 1800s through child
labor to mass immigration to labor
movements and more employe health and
safety has been an evolving issue
workplace health and safety is still
evolving today as new technologies
increased information and a growing and
shifting Workforce create the need for a
new revised and or additional standards
and
guidelines OSHA is the leading force in
the protection of the US
Workforce after the passage of the
occupational safety and health act the
first step the Secretary of Labor took
was to establish within the labor
department effective April 28th 1971 a
special agency to administer the ACT
this agency is what we know of today as
the occupational safety and health
administration or
OSHA this new agency took on the
difficult task of creating from scratch
a program that would meet the
legislative intent of the act the
purposes of the ACT are quite
comprehensive and include the
establishment of occupational safety and
health standards carrying Out
Inspections and
investigations ensuring the maintenance
of recordkeeping by employers on
occupational injuries and
illnesses requiring reporting by
employers of work-related deaths and
conducting research relating to
occupational safety and health OSHA uses
three basic strategies to help employers
and employees reduce injuries illnesses
and deaths on the
job one OSHA uses enforcement that is
strong fair and effective two they
provide Outreach education and
compliance assistance and three utilize
Partnerships alliances and other
cooperative and voluntary
programs since OSHA's Creation in
1971 there has been substantial progress
in increased occupational health and
safety work related fatality rates have
been historically low in Rec years OSHA
has helped to cut workplace fatalities
by more than 60% and occupational injury
and illness rates by
40% at the same time us employment has
increased from 56 million employees to
more than 135 million
employees while OSHA continues to make
strides in occupational health and
safety significant hazards and unsafe
conditions still exist in US
workplaces each year all almost 5,200
people die from workplace injuries in
the private sector nearly 4.3 million
people suffer non-fatal workplace
injuries and illnesses and the cost of
such injuries and illnesses total more
than
156 billion
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doll oosha issues mandated laws and
rules through what is known as standards
OSHA standards require that employers
maintain conditions or adopt practices
reasonably necessary and appropriate to
protect workers on the job employers are
to be familiar with and comply with
standards applicable to their
establishments employers must also
ensure that employees have and use
personal protective equipment when
required for our safety and
health each workplace may have different
requirements and different areas within
one workplace may require different
standards
as an employer it is your responsibility
to know what standards
apply the occupational safety and health
act covers private sector employers and
their employees in the 50 states and
certain territories and jurisdictions
under Federal Authority the ush ACT
covers employers and employees either
directly through Federal Ocean or
through an OSHA approved State program
section 18 of the OS Act
encourages states to develop and operate
their own job safety and health programs
there are currently 22 States and
jurisdictions operating complete State
plans covering both the private sector
and state and local government employees
and four Connecticut New Jersey New York
and the Virgin Islands which cover
public employees only OSHA approves and
monitors State plans and states must set
job safety and health stand standards
that are at least as effective as
comparable Federal standards Most states
adopt standards identical to Federal
ones all employers are required by law
to comply with all code of Federal
Regulation CFR promulgated under the OS
act in addition some agencies both
federal and state may incorporate OSHA
regulations into their own rules and
regulations whereupon these agencies
then may enforce the occupation safety
and health portions of their
requirements examples of federal
agencies that commonly use and enforce
OSHA requirements with their own
statutes and regulations are the US
Department of Transportation and the US
Environmental Protection
Agency the OS act does not cover certain
groups of
people these groups include the
self-employed members of immediate
family of farm employers worker
conditions that are regulated under
worker safety or health requirements of
other federal agencies and employees of
state and local governments some states
have state plans that cover these
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workers Congress provided very specific
language in the OS act indicating that
they recognized statistics on workplace
injuries and diseases are essential to
an effective National program of
prevention the ACT among other things
directed the Secretary of Labor to issue
regulations to require employers to
maintain records on workplace injuries
and illnesses this section is known as
CFR
1904 recording and Reporting
occupational injuries and
illnesses you can learn more about this
standard in the workbook the Secretary
of Labor was also directed to compile
accurate statistics on occupational
injuries and illnesses and to make
periodic reports on such occurrences the
responsibility for collecting statistics
on occupational injuries and illnesses
was delegated to the Bureau of Labor
Statistics OSHA is also assigned the
task of enforcing the standards they
Implement enforcement is accomplished
through the use of work site inspections
and if necessary imposing citations
penalties or both OSHA has a specific
standard cfr1 1903 inspections citations
and proposed penalties that Define these
topics workplace inspections and
investigations are conducted by OSHA
compliance officers who are trained
safety and health
professionals inspections are almost
always done without advanced notice some
special situations do occur in which
OSHA might provide advanced notice of
their
inspection these special circumstances
usually involve situations OSHA has been
notified that an emminent dangerous
condition is present and needs to be
corrected as soon as possible or that
there has been a
fatality If an employer refuses to admit
an OSHA compliance officer or if an
employer attempts to interfere with the
inspection the occupational safety and
health act permits appropriate legal
action such as obtaining a warrant to
inspect it is best to cooperate with
OSHA completely when being inspected
their goal should be your goal the
health and safety of
workers working cooperatively will help
reach that
goal not all 111 million workplaces
covered by the ACT can realistically be
inspected OSHA therefore has established
a priority system for conducting
inspections the worst cases are given
top priority the order in which
inspections or investigations are
conducted is one one imminent danger
situations two catastrophes and
fatalities three complaints and
referrals four programmed inspections
five follow-up
inspections after an inspection the
compliance officer discusses with the
employer all unsafe or unhealthful
conditions observed during the
inspection and indicates all apparent
violations for which he or she may issue
a command a citation and a proposed
penalty the compliance officer will not
indicate any specific proposed penalties
but will inform the employer of appeal
rights after the compliance officer
reports their findings the area director
determines whether he or she will issue
citations and or proposed
penalties citations inform the employer
and employees of the regulations and
standards alleged to have been violated
and of the proposed length of time set
to correct alleged hazards the employer
will receive citations and notices of
proposed penalties by certified mail the
employer must post a copy of each
citation at or near the place of
violation occurred for 3 days or until
the violation is abated whichever is
longer penalties are based on the type
of violations found during the
inspection there are eight types of
violations for which an employer can be
fined and penalties can range from 0 to
$500,000 depending on the type and
severity of the
violation additional penalties can be
imposed for violations such as
falsifying records reports or
applications violating posting
requirements are assaulting a compliance
officer or interfering with a compliance
officer while they perform their
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duties so what can you do to avoid
receiving citations and penalties while
striving to provide a safe and healthy
workplace you must also have established
written programs that cover most OSHA
standards the most important standards
all have requirements that companies
have written programs in place these
standards include Hazard communication
29 cfr1
1910.1200 respiratory protection
1910.134 emergency action plan
19103 fire prevention plans
19103 lockout tagout
1910.147 and bloodborne pathogens
1910.1030 other standards may also
require written programs it is not
enough to just have the programs written
and then filed away the programs must be
current utilized reviewed and updated as
necessary to ensure their Effectiveness
and compliance with OSHA
standards many companies create written
programs and then fail to keep them
current OSHA would view the situation
the same as if a program had not been
written at all and it indicates a lack
of positive safety and health attitude
overall OSHA will usually want to see
your written programs before ever
starting an inspection tour of your
company you must be
prepared another area that OSHA
considers very important is that of
Hazard assessment and personal
protective equipment cfr1 1910 132 set
standards for the use of PPE and
requires companies to assess the
workplace to determine hazards requiring
PPE employers have to verify that the
required hazard assessment was performed
through a written certification the
certification must identify the
workplace evaluated the person
certifying that the evaluation was
performed and the dates of the hazard
assessment obviously documentation is an
essential part of avoiding osia
citations and penalties training is
possibly the most important issue for
companies to address OSHA imposes
training and education requirements for
almost all standards it is important to
note that OSHA does not specifically
require documentation of training in
every standard most standards do insist
on documentation and we believe that
employers are better off documenting all
all training regardless of OSHA's
requirements uniform documentation of
all training will help you determine who
needs additional training determine when
it is time to update training and
evaluate employee work performance when
reviewing your training program you
should compare your current training
program to OSHA's training requirements
employers must include oser required
information as it pertains to that
specific
topic and an accurate and complete
training program will benefit your
company in more ways than you can
imagine we hope this short informational
video on OSHA has been helpful the
workbook that accompanied this video
provides additional information on over
30 different OSHA standards and other
safety topics the workbook information
is not meant to be allinclusive and is
not intended as a substitute for nor
should it be construed as legal advice
its purpose is to inter produce various
topics and hopefully give you a bit of
insight to those topics the workbook
also gives information on some of the
products National safety compliance has
available to help you in meeting various
requirements thank you and have a great
day
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