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| Department of the Army (#319) |
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| Date Signed: |
October 15, 2004 |
| Date Concluded: |
October 15, 2007 |
| Contact Information: |
Directorate of Cooperative and State Programs, (202) 693-2213 |
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OSHA/Department of Army Training.
Front row (l-r) Janet Dorothy, Paul Inman, Anne Marie Allred, William
Alcarese, Christopher Sollers, Rudolph Spencer, Dolores Nix, Amanda Hiatt
Second row (l-r) James Gibson, David Prenctic, Rudy Davis, David Darling,
Alex Bender, Ronald Heath, Kenneth Broughton, Dale Sullivan, Mora Harris,
Lewis Ligon, Russell Jones
Back row (l-r) Carla Slaughter, John Allmer, Danita Fowler, Scott Miller,
Gray Scott, Clyde McCorkle, Bryan Lorge, Jerry Roach, Stephen Redman,
Katheryn LaFrenz, Anna Gibbs, Kenneth Daniels, Robert Bessette
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Signing from left to right is:
John L. Henshaw, Assistant
Secretary of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration and
Geoffrey G. Prosch, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army
(Installations and Environment) Designated Agency Safety and Health
Official (DASHO) |
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Department of the Army Partnership signing
attendees were, from left to right:
Major General Joseph Webb, Deputy
Surgeon General of the Army; Mr. Phillip Sakowitz, Deputy Director,
Installation Management Agency; John L. Henshaw, Assistant Secretary of
Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration; Geoffrey G. Prosch,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Installations and
Environment) Designated Agency Safety and Health Official (DASHO); Alex A. Beehler, Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Environment, Safety
and Occupational Health; and Mr. Raymond J. Fatz, Deputy Assistant Secretary
of the Army, Environment, Safety and Occupational Health |
Partners:
- United States Army
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Partnership Purpose/Scope:
In the fall of 2003, the Army approached OSHA with a desire to use a
proactive approach to aggressively improve Army civilian workforce safety and
health at their installations. The Army recognized that OSHA had valuable
expertise in workplace safety and health, and could offer useful tools, such as
the Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP), to help achieve that goal.
This partnership formalizes the partners commitment to improving civilian
workforce safety and health and reducing injuries and illnesses. This Agreement
supports the goals of the President’s Safety, Health, and Return-to-Employment
(SHARE) Initiative.
Partnership Goals:
The primary goal of the Partnership is to reduce the number
of fatalities, injuries, and illnesses at participating Army installations by at
least 3% each year. Additionally, the Partnership will aim to:
- Expand awareness of the value of effective safety and health management
systems at participating sites.
- Reduce total case rates and severity rates related to musculoskeletal
disorders (MSDs).
- Share best practices and successes with other Army installations and similar
worksites in other industries.
- Expand the Army’s participation in VPP.
- Convey civilian workforce safety and health best practices and injury/illness
reduction lessons learned to Army military personnel where appropriate.
Partnership Objectives:
Partnership goals will be achieved through strategies and objectives that
include:
- Identifying top injury, illness and fatality causal factors at each
participating installation through review of injury and illness data and other
supporting documentation and developing a protocol to address and abate the
hazards.
- Completing a baseline assessment for each installation using Army safety and
occupational health policy and Army Innovative Safety Management Program, and OSHAs Challenge tools.
- Conducting employee awareness surveys during baseline and again after one
year of Partnership participation.
- Developing communication tools to promote safety and health (i.e. web site,
newsletter, VPP meetings, weekly updates) and using these tools to highlight
best practices and successes with the public.
- Leveraging strategies and results with other OSHA National partners where
opportunities allow.
- Implementing Army’s established comprehensive Safety and Health program based
on the OSHAs 1989 Safety and Health Program Management Guidelines.
- Providing tools to help promote contractor safety and health at participating
installations.
- Using illness and injury data at participating installations to identify key
tasks or processes that result in high rates of MSD’s, developing guidance that
address those hazards for identified jobs or processes, and implementing the
guidelines at all participating installations with similar jobs or processes.
- Developing an internal method for Army to share best practices and successes
with non-participating ARMY installations.
- Facilitating the use of mentors and Special Government Employees to help
participating sites apply for and achieve VPP status.
- Using the OSHA Challenge tools to identify areas for improvement at
participating sites and tracking progress toward achieving VPP.
Partnership Results
During the week of October 24, 2005, OSHA hosted a training event for more than
30 Army representatives from installations participating in the National
Army/OSHA Partnership. The representatives came to learn about OSHA’s
cooperative programs, especially the Strategic Partnership Program and VPP.
Installations will be working with OSHA Area Offices to reduce illnesses and
injuries and work toward VPP participation. |
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