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

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and ASOCIACIÓN CONTRATISTAS HISPANOS, LLC (ACH) recognizes the value of establishing a collaborative relationship to foster safer and more healthful American workplaces. OSHA and ACH hereby form an Alliance to provide ACH members and others with information, guidance, and access to training resources that will help them protect employees’ health and safety. In particular, the Alliance will focus on hard-to-reach workers exposure to fall, trenching and excavation, scaffolding, hazard communication, and electrical hazards and other prevalent safety hazards in the construction industry. In developing this Alliance, OSHA and ACH recognize that OSHA’s State Plan and Onsite Consultation Project partners are an integral part of the OSHA national effort.

OSHA and ACH will work together to achieve the following training and education goals:
  • Work with OSHA to provide expertise to develop training and education programs for employers and employees focused on the prevention of injuries, illnesses, and fatalities resulting from exposure to fall, scaffold, electrical, and chemical hazards and to provide expertise in communicating such information to employers and employers in the industry in both English and Spanish.

  • Deliver or arrange for the delivery of safety and health courses.

  • Work with OSHA to provide expertise to develop workplace safety and health curricula focused on the prevention of injuries, illnesses, and fatalities resulting from exposure to fall, scaffold, electrical, and chemical hazards.

OSHA and ACH will work together to achieve the following outreach and communication goals:
  • Work with OSHA to provide expertise in developing information on the recognition and prevention of workplace hazards, and ways of communicating such information by means of print and electronic media, electronic assistance tools and OSHA’s and ACH's Web sites to employers and employees in the industry.

  • Speak, exhibit, or appear at ACH annual conferences, local meetings, and safety training events.

  • Share information among OSHA personnel, industry safety and health professionals and ACH regarding best recommended practices or effective approaches and publicize results through outreach by OSHA and ACH and through OSHA and ACH developed materials, training programs, workshops, seminars, and lectures.

  • Promote and encourage ACH members’ or worksites’ participation in OSHA’s cooperative programs such as compliance assistance, the Voluntary Protection Program, Consultation, and the Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program.

OSHA and ACH will work together to achieve the following goals related to promoting the national dialogue on workplace safety and health:
  • Raise others’ awareness of and demonstrate their own commitment to workplace safety and health whenever ACH leaders address groups.

OSHA’s Alliances provide parties an opportunity to participate in a voluntary cooperative relationship with OSHA for purposes such as training and education, outreach and communication and promoting a national dialogue on workplace safety and health. These Alliances have proved to be valuable tools for both OSHA and its Alliance participants. By entering into an Alliance with a party, OSHA is not endorsing any of that party’s products or services; nor does the Agency enter into an Alliance with the purpose of promoting a particular party’s products or services.

An implementation team made up of representatives of both organizations will meet to develop a plan of action, determine working procedures, and identify the roles and responsibilities of the participants. In addition, they will meet at least three times per year to track and share information on activities and results in achieving the goals of the Alliance. OSHA will encourage State Plan States’ and OSHA Consultation Projects’ participation on the team.

This agreement will remain in effect for two years. Either signatory may terminate it for any reason at any time provided they give 30 days written notice. This agreement may be modified at any time with the concurrence of both signatories.



 
Roberto Sanchez
Birmingham Area Director
Occupational Safety and Health Administration

 
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Vicenta Bonet Smith
President of Internal Affairs
Asociación Contratistas Hispanos, LLC

 
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