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

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Analysis of OSHA State Plans, Strategic Management, and Workplace SafetyRegulationsDescribe State Plans and discuss what must be demonstrated by the states, including theprocess, to be an approved OSHA State Plan. Please provideapproximately 200-300 words anda reference citation for your source material in your response. 2.OSHA has a StrategicManagement Plan for 2003-2008. Briefly summarize that plan and comment on its new goals andthe 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 theprocess, to be an approved OSHA State Plan. Please provide approximately 200-300 wordsand 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 theStates to make new plans to operate their own safety and health programs for employers injob. OSHA recommends and monitors up to 50 percent of the total operating costs of anapproved plan.At present, there are22 states and jurisdictions which are employing complete state plansand five Connecticut covering only public employees.It must be the duty of the state to setjob safety and health standards which are most effective as compared to other federalstandards.That’s why most of the state plans are identical to federal ones.However, stateshave the option to promulgate the standards which have not been covered by federalstandards.(Labor U. D., n.d.)Inspection to enforce the standards which covered both state and local governmentemployees should be conducted. It should indulge itself into operation of occupationalsafety and health training and education programs.Now aday a free consultation program

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has also been providedin order to help employers to identify and correct the hazards oftheir workplace.Such consultation may be provided either under the plan or through aspecial agreementundersection 21(d)of the Act.Now, in order to get the approval from OSHA, which is the first step in the state planprocess,the state must ensure it to OSHA thatwithinthree years it will makeinvestments instructural elements in the organizations for an effective and occupationalsafety and health programs.To name a few of these elements areappropriate legislation;regulations and procedures for standards setting, enforcement, appeal of citations andpenalties; a sufficient number of qualified enforcement personnel.Once a State has completed and documented all its developmental steps, it is eligibleforcertification.It consists of onlyattestationof the documents related to the structuralcompleteness of the plan.Once state becomes capable of enforcing these standardsindependently, OSHA would ask for “operational status agreement”with the state.Itspurpose is to exercise of certain or may be all of those activities which were at discretion offederal enforcement.The ultimate accreditation of a State's plan is calledfinal approval.OSHA grants final approval to a stateundersection 18(e) of the Act. OSHArelinquishesits authority tothe state in terms ofcoveringoccupationalsafety and health matters.Afterat least one year following certification, the State becomes eligible for final approval ifOSHA determines that it is providing, in actual operation, worker protection "at least aseffective" as the protection provided by the federal program.It is in the interest of the Stateto meet the compliance 100% in terms of staffing levels or benchmarks. They mayparticipate in OSHA’s inspection of data system before full and final grant of approval byOSHA.

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Employees finding workplace safety and health hazards may file a formal complaint withthe appropriate plan State or with the appropriate OSHA regional administrator.Complaints will be investigated and should include the name of the workplace, type(s) ofhazard(s) observed and any other pertinent information.OSHA investigates all suchcomplaints, and where complaints are found to be valid, requires appropriate correctiveaction on the part of the State.(Labor, 1999)2.OSHA has aStrategic Management Plan for 2003-2008. Briefly summarize that plan andcomment on its new goals and the criteria used for target industries. Have any of the newgoals from this plan had, or will have, an effect on your workplace? Explain and give anexample. (www.osha.gov) Please provide approximately 200-300 words and a referencecitation for your source material in your response.ANSWER-OSHA's vision is that "Every employer in the nation recognizes thatoccupational safety and health adds value to American businesses, workplaces andworkers' lives."OSHA has designed a new five year strategic management plan to achievetheir objective and to provide a strong support to department of labor. It helps in fosteringquality good quality at the workplace. It should be safe and healthy.The strategicplan of2003-08 focused on reducing fatalities, injuriesand other harms to the employees.Assessing the SituationThe Strategic Management Plan is based on an analysis of the current safety and healthlandscape, occupational trends, emerging issues and agency priorities.While analysing,the whole assessment would also include other emergency situations as well such asviolence at workplace, any accident related to workplace, etc.Since 2008, OSHA startedfocussing onreducingspecific areas instead of broader goals.Its main target is to bringdown the fatalities due to construction by 3 percent and general industry fatalities by 1 per

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