OSHA expands CCP program

By Staff -- Industrial Distribution, 1/1/1998

Washington, D.C.--An award-winning enforcement partnership program developed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is expanding nationwide as the Cooperative Compliance Program is offered to 12,250 employers, Secretary of Labor Alexis M. Herman announced in November. The program is part of the agency's strategy to reduce injuries and illnesses in the workplace. OSHA's Maine 200 Program, the prototype for CCP, won the prestigious Innovation in American Government Award from the Ford Foundation as well as the Hammer Award from Vice President Al Gore's National Performance Review.

Herman says OSHA is committed to reducing injuries and illnesses in 100,000 workplaces by 20 percent over the next five years, and this partnership program will help the agency reach that goal.

Employers that accept OSHA's offer to join the Cooperative Compliance Program and commit to the program criteria can reduce their chances of a safety and health inspection from 100 percent to 30 percent; small employers that request compliance assistance reduce their inspection chances to 10 percent.

CCPs are part of the new, common-sense approach to OSHA announced by President Clinton in May 1995. They expand the agency's successful Maine 200 program that focused on the 200 companies in Maine with the highest workers' compensation rates and helped 70 percent of them to reduce serious injuries.

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