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The document provides an overview of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). It explains that OSHA was created by the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to enforce workplace safety and health standards. Employers must provide workplaces free of known hazards and follow all relevant OSHA standards. The document outlines workers' rights under OSHA, including the right to file complaints and request inspections. It also describes different types of hazards and methods for controlling hazards, noting that elimination and substitution are most effective while personal protective equipment is least effective.

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Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) OSHA Orientation
OSHA Topics 1. What is OSHA? 2. Rights Under OSHA 3. What is a Hazard? 4. How to Control Hazards? 5. Worker’s Rights
• The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSH Act) was passed to prevent workers from being killed or seriously harmed at work. • The law requires employers to provide their employees with working conditions that are free of known dangers. • The Act created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which sets and enforces protective workplace safety and health standards. • OSHA also provides information, training and assistance to workers and employers. • Workers may file a complaint to have OSHA inspect their workplace if they believe that their employer is not following OSHA standards or that there are serious hazards. What is OSHA? You have the right to a safe workplace!
Workers' Rights Under OSHA To help assure a safe and healthful workplace, OSHA also provides workers with the right to: • Ask OSHA to inspect their workplace • Use their rights under the law without discrimination • Receive information and training about hazards, methods to prevent harm, and the OSHA standards that apply to their workplace. The training must be in a language you can understand • Get copies of test results done to find hazards in the workplace; • Review records of work-related injuries and illnesses • Get copies of their medical records
Employer Responsibilities • Employers have the responsibility to provide a safe workplace. • Employers MUST provide their employees with a workplace that does not have serious hazards and follow all relevant OSHA safety and health standards. • Employers must find and correct safety and health problems. • OSHA further requires employers to try to eliminate or reduce hazards first by making changes in working conditions rather than just relying on masks, gloves, ear plugs or other types of personal protective equipment (PPE).
Employers MUST also: • Inform employees about hazards through training, labels, alarms, color-coded systems, chemical information sheets and other methods. • Keep accurate records of work-related injuries and illnesses. • Perform tests in the workplace, such as air sampling required by some OSHA standards. • Provide hearing exams or other medical tests required by OSHA standards. • Post OSHA citations, injury and illness data, and the OSHA poster in the workplace where workers will see them. • Notify OSHA within 8 hours of a workplace incident in which there is a death or when three or more workers go to a hospital. • Do Not discriminate against a worker for using their rights under the law.
Health and Safety Hazards Safety Hazards: • Cause physical injuries and accidents • Cause immediate harm • Examples: broken bones, cuts, bruises, sprains or electrocutions Health Hazards: • Cause internal injuries like diseases or illnesses • Cause long-term harm, may take years to develop • Examples: Cancer, heart disease, loss of hearing or reproductive problems
Risk Mapping of a Warehouse Store • Risk mapping is a method that employees use to identify hazards by drawing a layout of the workplace. • Label the various hazards that you see in this warehouse. – Physical/Safety Hazard – Biological/Chemical Hazard – Other Hazards
OSHAOrientation.pptx
Reducing Hazards • Employers must keep the workplace safe for workers. • There are different ways they can do this. • Some ways work better than other ways.
How to Reduce Hazards Handout More Effective Least Effective (best) (worst) ***** Elimination of Hazard **** Substitution *** Engineering ** Labor Practices/ Administrative Controls (Training & Procedures) * Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Top 2 Controls Elimination • The best way to control a hazard is to eliminate it entirely. It is best to do this as early as possible. • Example: use an electric forklift truck rather than a gas operated forklift truck to eliminate carbon monoxide in a warehouse Substitution • When a hazard cannot be eliminated completely, the second best alternative is substituting the dangerous condition. • The idea is to substitute chemicals, equipment, or hazardous materials with ones that are less hazardous. • Example: using paint that does not contain lead-based pigments
More Controls, but not as effective Engineering Controls • Engineering controls is another way that technology can be used to change the work environment, a machine, or some equipment in order to reduce the hazard. • Examples: machine guards, backup alarms, guardrails, covers, slip resistant surfaces, and using machine to move heavy objects instead of carrying them. Administrative Controls or Changing Labor Practices • Means changing the way and the structure of how work is done. • Example: instead of one employee exposed to a particular hazard for eight hours a day, the employer could assign four workers to work for two hours each; this could be used for repetitive tasks or for any exposure to a chemical hazard.
Least Effective Control: PPE Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): • This is equipment or clothing to protect the worker, such as respirators, eye goggles, gloves, knee pads, hard hats, steel toed shoes, harnesses.
Two Main Points to Keep in Mind 1. OSHA gives employees the right to complain about an unsafe working environment.  But in the Real World, it is more affective and protective to complain as a group…Why? • Because if it affects one person, it most likely affects many people • Because a group complaint gets more attention
Two Main Points to Keep in Mind cont. 2. If an employee is fearful, afraid of getting fired, there are organizations, called Worker Centers, that can represent him/her anonymously.  Unions can also represent employees
Taking Action on Unsafe Working Conditions These are local grassroots organizations, Workers’ Centers, advocate for workers’ rights on many employment issues, including wage theft (wage and hour violations), and worker health and safety. They can file OSHA complaints on workers; behalf and make referrals to workers’ compensation lawyers.
OSHA Topics Covered 1. What is OSHA? 2. Rights Under OSHA 3. What is a Hazard? 4. How to Control Hazards? 5. Worker’s Rights
Any Questions?
OSHA Thanks for your Attention!!

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OSHAOrientation.pptx

  • 1. Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) OSHA Orientation
  • 2. OSHA Topics 1. What is OSHA? 2. Rights Under OSHA 3. What is a Hazard? 4. How to Control Hazards? 5. Worker’s Rights
  • 3. • The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSH Act) was passed to prevent workers from being killed or seriously harmed at work. • The law requires employers to provide their employees with working conditions that are free of known dangers. • The Act created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which sets and enforces protective workplace safety and health standards. • OSHA also provides information, training and assistance to workers and employers. • Workers may file a complaint to have OSHA inspect their workplace if they believe that their employer is not following OSHA standards or that there are serious hazards. What is OSHA? You have the right to a safe workplace!
  • 4. Workers' Rights Under OSHA To help assure a safe and healthful workplace, OSHA also provides workers with the right to: • Ask OSHA to inspect their workplace • Use their rights under the law without discrimination • Receive information and training about hazards, methods to prevent harm, and the OSHA standards that apply to their workplace. The training must be in a language you can understand • Get copies of test results done to find hazards in the workplace; • Review records of work-related injuries and illnesses • Get copies of their medical records
  • 5. Employer Responsibilities • Employers have the responsibility to provide a safe workplace. • Employers MUST provide their employees with a workplace that does not have serious hazards and follow all relevant OSHA safety and health standards. • Employers must find and correct safety and health problems. • OSHA further requires employers to try to eliminate or reduce hazards first by making changes in working conditions rather than just relying on masks, gloves, ear plugs or other types of personal protective equipment (PPE).
  • 6. Employers MUST also: • Inform employees about hazards through training, labels, alarms, color-coded systems, chemical information sheets and other methods. • Keep accurate records of work-related injuries and illnesses. • Perform tests in the workplace, such as air sampling required by some OSHA standards. • Provide hearing exams or other medical tests required by OSHA standards. • Post OSHA citations, injury and illness data, and the OSHA poster in the workplace where workers will see them. • Notify OSHA within 8 hours of a workplace incident in which there is a death or when three or more workers go to a hospital. • Do Not discriminate against a worker for using their rights under the law.
  • 7. Health and Safety Hazards Safety Hazards: • Cause physical injuries and accidents • Cause immediate harm • Examples: broken bones, cuts, bruises, sprains or electrocutions Health Hazards: • Cause internal injuries like diseases or illnesses • Cause long-term harm, may take years to develop • Examples: Cancer, heart disease, loss of hearing or reproductive problems
  • 8. Risk Mapping of a Warehouse Store • Risk mapping is a method that employees use to identify hazards by drawing a layout of the workplace. • Label the various hazards that you see in this warehouse. – Physical/Safety Hazard – Biological/Chemical Hazard – Other Hazards
  • 10. Reducing Hazards • Employers must keep the workplace safe for workers. • There are different ways they can do this. • Some ways work better than other ways.
  • 11. How to Reduce Hazards Handout More Effective Least Effective (best) (worst) ***** Elimination of Hazard **** Substitution *** Engineering ** Labor Practices/ Administrative Controls (Training & Procedures) * Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
  • 12. Top 2 Controls Elimination • The best way to control a hazard is to eliminate it entirely. It is best to do this as early as possible. • Example: use an electric forklift truck rather than a gas operated forklift truck to eliminate carbon monoxide in a warehouse Substitution • When a hazard cannot be eliminated completely, the second best alternative is substituting the dangerous condition. • The idea is to substitute chemicals, equipment, or hazardous materials with ones that are less hazardous. • Example: using paint that does not contain lead-based pigments
  • 13. More Controls, but not as effective Engineering Controls • Engineering controls is another way that technology can be used to change the work environment, a machine, or some equipment in order to reduce the hazard. • Examples: machine guards, backup alarms, guardrails, covers, slip resistant surfaces, and using machine to move heavy objects instead of carrying them. Administrative Controls or Changing Labor Practices • Means changing the way and the structure of how work is done. • Example: instead of one employee exposed to a particular hazard for eight hours a day, the employer could assign four workers to work for two hours each; this could be used for repetitive tasks or for any exposure to a chemical hazard.
  • 14. Least Effective Control: PPE Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): • This is equipment or clothing to protect the worker, such as respirators, eye goggles, gloves, knee pads, hard hats, steel toed shoes, harnesses.
  • 15. Two Main Points to Keep in Mind 1. OSHA gives employees the right to complain about an unsafe working environment.  But in the Real World, it is more affective and protective to complain as a group…Why? • Because if it affects one person, it most likely affects many people • Because a group complaint gets more attention
  • 16. Two Main Points to Keep in Mind cont. 2. If an employee is fearful, afraid of getting fired, there are organizations, called Worker Centers, that can represent him/her anonymously.  Unions can also represent employees
  • 17. Taking Action on Unsafe Working Conditions These are local grassroots organizations, Workers’ Centers, advocate for workers’ rights on many employment issues, including wage theft (wage and hour violations), and worker health and safety. They can file OSHA complaints on workers; behalf and make referrals to workers’ compensation lawyers.
  • 18. OSHA Topics Covered 1. What is OSHA? 2. Rights Under OSHA 3. What is a Hazard? 4. How to Control Hazards? 5. Worker’s Rights
  • 20. OSHA Thanks for your Attention!!

Editor's Notes

  1. Participants sign-in for the orientation, and receive the information folder. The facilitators begin by welcoming all the attendees to the orientation and introducing themselves to the group. Inform the participants that: This material was produced under an OSHA grant. Ask participants about their occupational background, to get a feel of which industries are represented in the group.
  2. Ask the participants if they know what OSHA stands for? Provide fact sheet: OSHA It’s the Law! http://www.osha.gov/Publications/osha3165.pdf If they do know, then engage in a small question/answer session about OSHA. If not, assure the participants that it is ok: State that OSHA stands for Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Indicate that by the end of this orientation they will have a better understanding of OSHA.
  3. Say: Workers are entitled to working conditions that do not pose a risk of serious harm. Provide Fact Sheet Job Safety and Health (2 pages) http://www.osha.gov/OshDoc/data_General_Facts/jobsafetyandhealth-factsheet.pdf
  4. After last bullet point, say: Switching to safer chemicals, enclosing processes to trap harmful fumes, or using ventilation systems to clean the air are examples of effective ways to get rid of or minimize risks.
  5. Explain the definitions of safety and health hazards.
  6. Form groups of 3-4 people (if possible, according to their common line of work) and provide each group with “Sample Risk Map of a Warehouse Store” handout to identify some hazards; remind participants that they may use “Types of Hazards Fact Sheet” Handout. For each group, ask students to: Label the locations of hazards on the floor plans: Indicate “physical and safety hazards” Indicate “biological and chemical hazards” Indicate “other hazards” as stress Each group will share their selected hazards from the map, explaining what the workplace is and what dangers are represented
  7. Wrap up by having a discussion; sample questions to ask the class: Did you see hazards that you expected? Were you surprised by hazards that you had not thought of before? How would you propose to reduce or solve some of the hazards depicted in the maps? What did you learn from this activity?
  8. Provide the participants with the Microsoft Word Document “How to Reduce Hazards for PPT of Manufacturing Works”
  9. Another example for Elimination: use a chain from the floor to open an elevated valve rather than using a ladder to climb up and open the valve. Addition information for Substitution: A potential problem is when the product being used as a substitute is as dangerous as the original. For this reason, it is important to find out if the product is truly less hazardous than the original.
  10. It can include respirators, and protective wear for the eyes, ears, and face, gloves, and protective rope.
  11. Most workers’ centers listed below are local affiliates of national networks which campaign for fair working conditions for low wage immigrant workers. Provide participants with Microsoft Document “