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Goals for 2000
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OSHA’s Vision
To make America's workplaces
the safest in the world by eliminating workplace injuries, illnesses, and
deaths, so that all workers return home safely every day.
To achieve this vision, OSHA
has established three interdependent and complementary strategic goals
that will guide the development of programs and activities for the agency.
For each strategic goal, the agency has identified specific, measurable,
performance goals to assess OSHA’s progress:
Goal 1: Improve
workplace safety and health for all workers, as evidenced by fewer hazards,
reduced exposures and fewer injuries, illnesses and fatalities.
By September 30, 2000 OSHA
will:
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Reduce
injury/illness rates 20% in at least 50,000 workplaces where OSHA initiates
an intervention.
Status: OSHA has
achieved this goal.
Indicator:
The number of workplaces
where OSHA had an intervention and injury/illness rates have been reduced
by 20%.
Baseline:
LWDII rate in each workplace
prior to an intervention beginning in FY 1995.
FY 1999 Results
50,100 workplaces reduced
Lost Workday Injury & Illness (LWDII) rates by at least 20%
Comment:
Results based on an analysis
conducted by researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Clark University
using OSHA Data Initiative (ODI), OSHA Integrated Management Information
System (IMIS), Bureau of Labor Statistics Annual Survey of Occupational
Injuries and Illnesses data.
This analysis was done because
the follow-up data for interventions conducted between FY 1995 and FY 1999
will not be completely available until FY 2001.
By September 30, 2000 OSHA will:
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Initiate
investigation of 95% of worker complaints within 1 working day or conduct
an on-site inspection within 5 working days.
Status as of July 31,
2000: 85%
Indicator:
The percentage of worker
complaints that have an investigation within one working day or an on-site
inspection within five working days.
Baseline:
FY 1999 Results
Comment
OSHA offers workers the choice
between two approaches to handle their complaints: either OSHA will contact
employers via phone/fax to inform them of complaints, with a response required
back from the employer within five work days; or, OSHA will conduct an
on-site inspection.
Goal 2: Change
workplace culture to increase employer and worker awareness of, commitment
to, and involvement with safety and health.
By September 30, 2000 OSHA
will:
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Make
all standards and regulations available on the OSHA Home Page on the Internet.
Status: OSHA has achieved
this goal.
OSHA's
home page has standards, directives, compliance assistance materials,
fact sheets, publications, events, frequently asked questions, most frequently
violated standards, news releases, the OSHA/Consultation Office Directory,
technical support materials, speeches, OSHA's small business page, electronic
advisors, and what's new available on it at www.osha.gov.
Goal 3: Secure
public confidence through excellence in the development and delivery of
OSHA’s programs and services.
By September 30, 2000 OSHA
will:
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Redesign
all of its federal field enforcement offices by September 30, 1999 to improve
the agency's ability to reduce worker injury, illness, and death in the
most hazardous workplaces.
Status: OSHA has achieved
this goal.
All 66 scheduled federal field
enforcement offices have been redesigned by introducing new strategies
to reduce injuries, illnesses, and fatalities, and by improving existing
processes.
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