Alliance -- An OSHA Cooperative Program<< Back to Region I

I. Alliance Background

Date Signed

25 April 2003

Overview

The purpose of the Alliance is to foster a culture of prevention through sharing best practices and technical knowledge to promote safe and healthful working conditions for CBIA member company employees by providing information and guidance that will help them protect employees health and safety by reducing and preventing exposure to workplace hazards.

Implementation Team Members

Cindy Panioto – CBIA
Richard Palo – ConnOSHA
Thomas Hozebin – ConnOSHA
Kenneth Tucker – ConnOSHA
John Able – ConnOSHA
Robert W. Kowalski – USDOL/OSHA Bridgeport Area Office
Leona May – USDOL/OSHA Bridgeport Area Office
C. William Freeman – USDOL/OSHA Hartford Area Office
Anthony Fuschillo - USDOL/OSHA Hartford Area Office

Contributors

None

Evaluation Period

Annual Report 25 April 2005 to 24 April 2006

II. Implementation Team Meetings

7 May 2005
24 February 2006

III. Events and Products

Training and Education
  • 4 October 2005: Career day for high school students
  • 21 February 2006: 10 hour general industry training

Outreach and Communication
  • Events

    19 May 2005: Monthly round table meeting
    20 October 2005: Monthly round table meeting
    15 November 2005: Monthly round table meeting
    29 March 2006 Annual CBIA Safety and Health Conference

Promoting the National Dialogue on Workplace Safety and Health
  • Events

IV. Results
 
Type of Activity (Conference, Training, Print and Electronic Distribution, etc.) Number of Individuals Reached or Trained
Career day 1000
10 hour general industry training 32
OSHA Update/roundtable meetings 141
TOTAL 1173


V. Upcoming Milestones

Outreach presentations will be scheduled for CBIA members to discuss SST 06 notification letters that have been sent out and to discuss the SST program

The compliance assistance specialists and area office staff will continue to participate in CBIA monthly round table meetings.

Quarterly meetings will be scheduled to discuss objectives that are of mutual interest to OSHA and to CBIA.

A meeting will be scheduled to discuss setting up an alliance that will promote safety and health training of non English speaking workers.

Federal OSHA and Conn OSHA will schedule and teach the OSHA 10 hour general industry training courses for individuals from CBIA member companies.

The OSHA offices will continue to be a resource available to answer compliance questions and to research technical questions posed by CBIA members.