Management will ensure employee involvement with the safety and health program in each of the following methods: 

Participants will establish a safety and health team. The team should meet at least monthly to identify construction hazards, training needs, and other related issues. Valid ideas and/ or recommendations will receive reasonable and timely action. Identified imminent danger hazards (those immediately likely to cause death or serious injury) which are identified by the team will be immediately corrected by management. 

An employee representative will participate in any company safety audit --- unless performed by independent safety and health consultants/ contractors. 
  
Employees will have access to safety/ health audits and corrections. These may be available at the company's offices in a location accessible by all employees. 

Employee representatives will, if available, as a part of their regular duties, be allowed to accompany a compliance officer on any OSHA inspection. 

All warning signs will be in the principal working language of affected workers. Interpreters will be made available, on request, to translate safety and health programs, audit reports, hazard information, and informational posters. 

Employees will have the right to submit safety and health complaints or recommendations to management. Valid complaints will be corrected within a reasonable time. 

Employees will retain the right to submit complaints to OSHA regardless of whether they pursue their complaint within company procedures. 

Employees will not be discriminated against as a result of participation in the safety and health program, submitting complaints, or exercising their rights under the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act. 

Participating companies agree to conduct periodic worksite audits for the purpose of identifying and correcting safety and health hazards. 

Audits will be conducted as frequently as deemed necessary by the company, but in no case less than once every twelve months. 
 
Companies which routinely rely on the services of consultants may use such services to conduct audits in addition to or in lieu of company representatives. 

Companies agree to correct all hazards identified in these audits at the jobsite and within a reasonable time. 

Train their workforce (in the principal working language of the workers) in the details of their safety and health program. If the ability to speak and read English is a job qualification on the site, the translation will not be a requirement. 

Train workers on their rights and responsibilities under OSHA. 

Train selected personnel for each worksite in basic first aid and CPR. 

Train personnel in hazards typical of the work done by the contractor/ employer. Emphasis will be on hazards known to cause death or serious injuries at construction sites or general workplaces, such as falls, electrical hazards, struck-by hazards, trenching, and chemical hazards. 
 
Make material safety data sheets (MSDSs) available to any requesting employee. MSDSs will be translated if written in English and not understood by the reader. 

Train workers in any other aspects that will enable them to do their jobs safely. 

Participating contractors agree to have an assigned safety person whose job will be to manage the safety and health program, reduce injuries/ illnesses, and ensure compliance with OSHA standards. This person will have the authority to effect safety and health corrections and to shut-down operations that pose an imminent danger risk. 

Participants will maintain records of recordable injuries and illnesses as required by OSHA. 

Annual summaries of injuries/ illnesses will be posted for the information of workers as required by OSHA. 
 
The company safety and health official will analyze injury and illness trends to identify work practice improvements or material modifications necessary to prevent accidents. 

Where worker accommodations are under the control of the participant, the participant agrees to comply with all OSHA requirements and to provide living accommodations that are safe, sanitary, and adequate for residents. 

The safety and health representative will prepare an annual analysis of the company's safety and health program which will include a summary of all major hazards found and corrected through site inspection or safety team efforts, those still uncorrected, injury/ illness trends, and recommendations for safety and health improvements. 

The analysis will be submitted to the CEO or equivalent. 

Participants agree to allow OSHA to inspect without delay in the event of a catastrophe, fatality, or complaint. 

Participants agree to allow OSHA to conduct an annual program verification inspection at their office, yard, and project sites, in accordance with this partnership agreement. 

Participants agree to cooperate with OSHA during all inspections and to share information on its safety and health program, program analyses, recordkeeping data, and internal inspection/ audit results. 

Participants agree to allow an employee representative to participate on OSHA inspections and to allow interviews with workers. 

Participants will post notices of imminent danger, when issued by OSHA, and then will immediately correct the hazard or voluntarily remove workers from exposure. 

So long as the participant is meeting the intent of the partnership, OSHA will conduct a focused verification inspection in lieu of programmed inspections. Such verification inspection will occur no more than once a year. 

The OSHA verification inspection will be limited in scope to a review and evaluation of the safety and health program, analysis of injuries, interview of select employees to verify quality, and a focused inspection of a project site to verify compliance. Obvious significant hazards will be cited. 
 
OSHA will limit the scope of accident and complaint investigations to information relevant to the accident or complaint (including records) and will not expand the inspection to other areas unless hazards are obvious. 
 
OSHA will endeavor to support the company in reasonable requests for training. 
 
OSHA will furnish technical advice, publications, and training material to the employer upon request. Such requests will not cause an OSHA inspection. 
 
Informal complaints (unsigned) --- Participating companies will have an opportunity to resolve such complaints; however, if corrections are determined by OSHA to be inadequate, an inspection may be made to achieve compliance.