Office of Small Business Assistance
The Office of Small Business Assistance administers OSHA's nationwide On-Site Consultation Program and serves as liaison and a point of contact within the agency for small businesses. OSHA offers many services designed to help small businesses and welcomes comments and suggestions from small business owners and their employees as to how OSHA can better serve their needs.
On-Site Consultation
OSHA's On-Site Consultation Program offers no-cost and confidential occupational safety and health services to small- and medium-sized businesses in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and several U.S. territories, with priority given to high-hazard worksites. Consultants from state agencies or universities work with employers to identify workplace hazards, provide advice for compliance with OSHA standards, and assist in establishing and improving safety and health programs
Small Business Assistance
OSHA's Office of Small Business Assistance serves to promote all of the agency activity on behalf of small business. It provides outreach and compliance assistance to small businesses and works to develop and enhance relations between the agency and small business employers.
Office of Small Business Assistance
- Directorate of Cooperative and State Programs
- 200 Constitution Avenue, NW
- Room N-3660
- Washington, DC 20210
- (202) 693-2220
Staff
- Patrick Showalter, Director, Office of Small Business Assistance
- Barney Lawrence, Supervisor
- Opeyemi Farquah, Occupational Safety and Health Specialist
- Ann Grevenkamp, Occupational Safety and Health Specialist
- Bruce Love, Program Analyst
- Kathleen Martinez, Program Analyst
- Christian Wojnar, Program Analyst