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Welcome to the Basel ii Compliance
Portal
The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
- http://osha.europa.eu
"Workers and employers need to be made aware of the risks that
they face, and how to manage them. But health and safety bodies in
the individual EU Member States cannot do this alone. That is why the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work was set up, in 1996. Our mission is to make Europe's workplaces safer, healthier and more productive. We do this by bringing together and sharing knowledge and information, to promote a culture of risk prevention. Located in Bilbao, Spain, we have a dedicated staff of occupational safety and health (OSH), communication and administrative specialists. At the national level, we are represented through a network of focal points, which are usually the lead OSH bodies in the individual Member States. The Agency is a tripartite organisation, this means that we work with governments, employers and workers representatives. We are a single reference point for OSH information. We commission, collect and publish new scientific research and statistics on OSH risks. We share good practice, and communicate information in a variety of ways to reach workers and workplaces. Our publicity campaigns include the European Week for Safety and Health at Work, which focuses on different themes. We also provide information on our website, via our electronic newsletter OSHmail, and in a range of printed publications. We help to explain European legislation on OSH. And we look out for risks which may only be emerging, due to the fast pace of change in the workplace. Our European Risk Observatory aims to identify new and emerging risks. In order to achieve this, it will give an overview of safety and health at work in Europe, describe the trends and underlying factors, and anticipate changes in work and their likely consequences for safety and health. Additionally, it aims to stimulate debate and reflection among the Agency's stakeholders and to provide a platform for debate between policy-makers at various levels. Good safety and health is good business." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) - www.osha.gov "Under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, employers are responsible for providing a safe and healthy workplace for their employees. OSHA's role is to promote the safety and health of America's working men and women by setting and enforcing standards; providing training, outreach and education; establishing partnerships; and encouraging continual process improvement in workplace safety and health. OSHA and its state partners have approximately 2100 inspectors, plus complaint discrimination investigators, engineers, physicians, educators, standards writers, and other technical and support personnel spread over more than 200 offices throughout the country. This staff establishes protective standards, enforces those standards, and reaches out to employers and employees through technical assistance and consultation programs. Nearly every working man and woman in the nation comes under OSHA's jurisdiction (with some exceptions such as miners, transportation workers, many public employees, and the self-employed). Other users and recipients of OSHA services include: occupational safety and health professionals, the academic community, lawyers, journalists, and personnel of other government entities. OSHA is determined to use its limited resources effectively to stimulate management commitment and employee participation in comprehensive workplace safety and health programs. At OSHA, we are dedicated to improving the quality of our efforts and know that to be successful we must become an agency that is driven by commitment to public service. The first step is for OSHA to listen and respond to its customers. Accordingly, we conducted a survey to learn more about what employers and employees think of OSHA's services. Because workplace inspections are one of OSHA's principal activities and because voluntary efforts to improve working conditions ultimately depend on strong enforcement, our survey focused primarily on the inspection process. We asked a random sample of employees and employers who had recently experienced an OSHA inspection what they thought of the inspection in particular, and of OSHA's standards and educational and other assistance activities in general. We based OSHA's new standards for public service on what we learned from the survey, from meetings with employee and employer groups, and from focus group discussions with workers from many plants and industries across the country. Our public service improvement program will be an ongoing one. We will continue to gather information on the quality of our performance in delivering services in areas not included in this year's survey, particularly in the construction sector. Next year, too, we plan to learn more about public response to our assistance and consultation programs." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OSHA Directorate of Training and Education Training Resources The OSHA Directorate of Training and Education (DTE) develops, directs, oversees, manages and ensures implementation of OSHA’s national training and education policies and procedures. OSHA Training Institute (OTI) The OTI provides training and education in occupational safety and health for federal and state compliance officers, state consultants, other federal agency personnel, and the private sector. OSHA Training Institute Education Centers The OTI Education Centers offer the most frequently requested OSHA Training Institute courses for the private sector and other federal agency personnel at locations throughout the United States. OSHA Outreach Training Program OSHA extends its training reach to workers through its various Outreach Training Programs. Through these programs, qualified individuals complete an OSHA trainer course and become authorized to teach student courses. Disaster Site Worker Outreach Training Program Trainers are authorized to teach a 16-hour course in safety and health to workers who provide skilled support or site clean-up services. www.osha.gov/dcsp/ote/index.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Keywords OSHA, OSHA Training, OSHA Compliance Training, United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration, European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
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