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Federal Agency Programs Mission |
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Divisions:
Federal Agency Programs Mission:
To ensure that each Federal agency is provided with
the guidance necessary to implement an effective occupational
safety and health program within the agency, and to inform the
President on the progress being made through detailed
evaluations, reports and studies of agencies' occupational safety
and health programs.
Federal Agency Programs Functions:
- Provides leadership and guidance to the heads of Federal
agencies to assist them in implementing effective occupational
safety and health programs.
- Develops policies, regulations, program plans and procedures
for Federal agency evaluation, training, consultation, standards
review, inspection and council programs.
- Provides policy guidance to OSHA Regional Administrators on
Federal consultations; targeted, complaint or other inspections;
evaluations; training; and Field council operations.
- Evaluates Federal agency occupational safety and health
programs and recommends to agency heads improvements heeded to
make programs more effective in providing safe and healthful
working conditions for Federal employees. Submits to the
President reports of such evaluations and agency responses.
- Establishes Federal agency compliance policies and monitors
the effectiveness of the compliance activities of OSHA field
offices.
- Establishes requirements for Agency Certified Safety and
Health Committees.Reviews agency submissions, recommends
certification where agencies meet established criteria and
monitors committee operations.
- Provides support to Federal agencies in the correction of
hazardous working conditions and provides assistance and guidance
to agencies in the use and interpretation of OSHA safety and
health standards. Develops policies and procedures for
consideration of agency requests for alternate and/or
supplementary standards and for the resolution of standards
conflicts.
- Establishes priorities for, and provides guidance to Federal
agencies and the OSHA Training Institute in the provision of
occupational safety and health training for Federal agency
personnel.
- Develops and maintains a recordkeeping and reporting system
based on OWCP data for Federal agency programs, prepares and
publishes an annual statistical Summary Develops and maintains
requirements for the Federal Integrated Management Information
System based on data from OSHA field personnel and files
generated by OWCP.
- Analyzes statistical data to determine government wide and/or
agency trends in injury or illness causes nature costs, etc.
publishes periodic reports of such analyses.
- Provides executive secretariat to the Federal Advisory
Council on Occupational Safety and Health to assist and guide it
in fulfilling its role of advising the Secretary of Labor on
governmental safety and health matters.
- Sponsors and provides leadership to Field Federal Safety and
Health Councils to make them effective partners with OSHA in the
dissemination of information and services, including the
sponsorship of training courses and other mutual assistance
efforts.
- Prepares and submits to the President an annual formal report
on the occupational safety and health program in the Federal
Government, subject to Office of Management and budget review and
clearance.
Division of Federal Agency Program Direction and
Evaluation
Mission:
To promote improvement in Federal Agency Occupational
Safety and Health Programs through comprehensive program
evaluations, inter-agency coordination, and government-wide
incentive programs.
Functions:
- Develops policies, procedures and guidelines for the conduct
of Federal agency occupational safety and health program
evaluations.
- Plans, conducts, coordinates and reports on comprehensive
evaluations of Federal agency occupational safety and health
programs.Reports findings and recommendations to the President
and the evaluated agencies.
- Performs special studies of Federal agency occupational
safety and health programs.
- Develops and maintains policies, procedures and requirements
for the establishment of agency Certified Safety and Health
Committees.
- Develops and maintains Department of Labor regulations, Part
29
CFR 1960, which the heads of agencies must follow in
operating their occupational safety and health programs.
- Provides national direction and guidance to Federal agencies
by initiating Presidential policies and directives.
- Coordinates multi-agency efforts to address safety and health
problems common to many Federal agencies.
- Provides policy guidance and administrative and technical
assistance to the Federal Advisory Council on Occupational Safety
and Health and its id hoc and standing committees.
- Develops policies, criteria, objectives and plans for the
Field Federal Safety and Health Council program encourages agency
heads to participate in the field council program, and provides
guidance to OSHA Regional Offices in establishing and
implementing eff--ctive field safety and health council programs.
Reviews applications for councils, issues and revokes charters,
monitors council activities and reviews annual council activities
and reviews annual council reports.
- Plans, organizes and administer the annual Presidents Safety
and Health Award Program and Field Council Awards Program.
- Plans, organizes and develops national safety and health
campaigns for use by Federal agencies and Federal Safety and
Health Councils. Prepares Presidential policy papers, technical
program materials and guidelines for agency Federal Safety
Council use in implementing the campaign.
- Plans, organizes, and administers Federal safety and health
conferences.
- Develops and distributes publications, newsletters, and
safety and health regulations to Federal agencies and field
councils.
- Develops guidelines for preparation of agency annual reports
to the Secretary of Labor. On the basis of annual reports and
other information, prepares annual"report to the President on the
status of the occupational safety and health of Federal
employees, identifying program deficiencies and recommending
improvements.
- Serves as liaison to the Office of Policy regarding memoranda
of understanding, Congressional testimony, Federal agency-related
briefings and other policy issues, as needed.
Division of Compliance and Technical
Guidance
Mission:
To provide Federal agencies and OSHA field staff
with technical and program guidance concerning OSHA standards,
Compliance procedures, injury/illness data and
training.
Functions:
- Provides guidance to Federal departments and agencies With
regard to program design and implementation. Provides technical
advice on the correction of unsafe or unhealthful working
conditions.
- Develops policies and procedures for, and coordinates the
review of agency alternate standards for consistency with OSHA
standards. Notifies agencies of findings, and provides technical
assistance when needed.
- Develops and maintains a system for the collection and
analysis of occupational safety and statistics for the Federal
Government. Publishes an annual statistical summary of the
causes, costs, and trends of Federal sector injuries and
illnesses.
- Develops and maintains Federal agency requirements for the
integrated Management Information System. Provides data on
activities conducted by OSHA field personnel with Federal
agencies.
- Develops policies, procedures and criteria for Federal agency
targeted inspections Identifies individual and high hazard agency
installations, develops targeting lists and distributes to OSHA
Regional Offices.
- Responds, to Federal employee reports of hazards received
directly or referred by members of Congress.
- Maintains liaison with other agencies and organizations to
obtain assistance when needed in investigating accidents or
inspecting as a result of reports of unsafe or unhealthful
conditions.
- Processes and monitors reprisal complaints received at the
National office.
- Resolves failure-to-abate cases forwarded by Regional
Administrators to the National Office for resolution with agency
headquarters.
- Interprets OSHA standards in response to requests from
Federal agency Occupational Safety and Health personnel and
employee representatives.
- Develops and updates portions of the Field Operations Manual
(FOM) pertaining to Federal agency compliance policies and
Procedures Interprets the F014 for OSHA field staff and Personnel
from other Federal agencies.
- Serves as liaison to the Office of Training and the OSHA
-Training institute with regard to the need for Federal agency
training courses. Provides assistance and advice in the
development of course materials which include Federal agency
program requirements.
- Develops and maintains statistical data in support of
Government injury/illness reduction incentive programs.
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