Question: What kinds of activities do Alliances undertake?

Answer:

As a condition of their participation in the program, Alliance participants disseminate information on OSHA initiatives and resources to their stakeholders, and support their stakeholders’ engagement in the agency’s outreach efforts. In this way, Alliance participants serve as important information intermediaries, significantly amplifying and supporting OSHA’s outreach initiatives. As a result, more employers and workers receive information to help them comply with OSHA requirements and improve workplace safety and health in their industries. OSHA supports Alliance participants’ efforts by providing timely information to Alliance participants on agency regulatory activities, enforcement initiatives, and outreach campaigns, and connecting Alliance participants with appropriate OSHA compliance assistance and technical staff who can support exhibits, and participate in meetings and other events to present information about the agency and its initiatives.

Alliance participants may also conduct activities beyond outreach and dissemination, with priority given to projects that fill gaps and support agency initiatives. Examples of these projects include:

• Planning and conducting stand-downs, training sessions, or other outreach events in support of key OSHA initiatives,
• Providing technical briefings for OSHA staff,
• Developing Alliance products, (e.g., to fill gaps where workplace safety and health materials do not exist or to address an emerging hazard), and
• Reviewing OSHA compliance assistance materials.

For Alliance products and other projects that go beyond outreach and dissemination, Alliance participants must follow the Guidelines for OSHA’s Alliance Program Participants: Alliance Products and Other Alliance Projects.