AGREEMENT ESTABLISHING AN ALLIANCE BETWEEN
BOSTON AREA OFFICE SOUTH
PROVIDENCE AREA OFFICE
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
U.S DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
AND
CENTRO COMUNITARIO DE TRABAJADORES

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Boston Area South Area Office, Providence Area Office, and the Centro Comunitario de Trabajadores (CCT) recognize the value of establishing a collaborative relationship to foster safety and health practices and programs to improve American workplaces. To that end, OSHA and CCT hereby establish an Alliance with an emphasis on addressing workplace safety and health hazards faced by CCT’s constituency of immigrant and low-wage workers in southern New England, as well as understanding the rights of these workers and the responsibilities of employers under the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act).

This agreement provides a framework and objectives for the Alliance's activities. Alliance participants also agree to meet the “Fundamental Requirements for OSHA Alliance Program Participants” and the “Guidelines for OSHA’s Alliance Program Participants: Alliance Products and Other Alliance Projects.”

Through the Alliance, the participants will use relevant injury, illness, and hazard exposure data, when appropriate, to help identify areas of emphasis for Alliance awareness, outreach, and communication activities. The Alliance will also explore and implement selected options to evaluate the effectiveness of the Alliance and measure the impact of its overall effort on improving workplace safety and health. In developing this Alliance, OSHA and CCT recognize that OSHA's State Plan and On-site Consultation Project partners are an integral part of the OSHA national effort, and that information about the products and activities of the Alliance may be shared with these partners for the advancement of common goals.

Raising Awareness: Outreach and Communication

The Participants intend to work together to achieve the following objectives related to raising awareness of OSHA's rulemaking and enforcement initiatives:

• Share information on OSHA’s National/Regional/Local Initiatives (Emphasis Programs, Regulatory Agenda, Outreach), and opportunities to participate in initiatives and the rulemaking process.

• Share information on occupational safety and health laws and standards, including the rights and responsibilities of workers and employers.

• Share information regarding the rights as an employee under the whistleblower protection laws enforced by OSHA and the importance of filing complaints right away if someone believes they have been retaliated against for exercising those rights.

• Speak, exhibit, or appear at OSHA and CCT’s conferences, local meetings, or other events.

• Convene or participate in forums, roundtable discussions, or stakeholder meetings on low- wage and immigrant workers to help forge innovative solutions in the workplace or to provide input on safety and health issues.

• Encourage worker participation in workplace safety and health regardless of immigration status and build relationships with OSHA’s Regional and Area Offices to address health and safety issues faced by low-wage and immigrant workers.

• Share information among OSHA personnel and industry safety and health professionals regarding the Centro Comunitario de Trabajadores’ best practices or effective approaches through training programs, workshops, seminars, and lectures or other forums developed by the participants.

• Collaborate with other Alliance participants on specific issues and projects on preventing workplace hazards for immigrant workers that are addressed and developed through the Alliance Program.

• To develop and disseminate case studies on the specific difficulties and strategies found effective in preventing hazards faced by immigrants and publicize their results.

Training and Education

The Participants intend to work together to achieve the following training and education objectives:

• Develop effective training and education programs regarding the workplace safety and health hazards experienced by CCT members and communicate such information to constituent employers and workers in a culturally and linguistically appropriate manner.

• Develop effective training and education programs for CCT members which are culturally and linguistically appropriate to promote an understanding of workers' rights, including the use of the OSHA's complaint process, and the responsibilities of employers.

OSHA’s Alliances provide organizations an opportunity to participate in a voluntary cooperative relationship with OSHA for purposes such as raising awareness of OSHA’s initiatives, outreach, communications, training, and education. These Alliances have proven to be valuable tools for both OSHA and Alliance participants. By entering into an Alliance with an organization, OSHA is not endorsing or promoting, nor does it intend to endorse or promote, any of that organization’s products or services.

An implementation team made up of representatives of each organization will meet one to two times per year to track and share information on activities and results in achieving the goals of the Alliance. OSHA team members will include representatives of the Boston Area South Area Office and Providence Area Office, along with any other appropriate offices. OSHA will encourage State Plan States' and OSHA On-site Consultation Projects' participation on the team.

This agreement will remain in effect for two years. Any signatory may terminate it for any reason at any time, provided the terminating signatory give 30 days’ written notice to the other. This agreement may be modified at any time with the written concurrence of all signatories

Signed this 29th day of June, 2023.

ESTABLISHING AN ALLIANCE PROGRAM AMBASSADOR RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN
BRIDGEPORT AREA OFFICE
THE OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
AND
INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS, LOCAL 1150

Since entering into an Alliance on September 16, 2003 subsequent renewal(s) on February 27, 2018 the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Bridgeport Area Office and International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 1150 have worked together to improve workplace health and safety by sharing information, guidance, and access to training resources that address occupational hazards, and promoting understanding of the rights of workers and the responsibilities of employers under the Occupational Safety and Health Act.

OSHA and Teamsters, Local 1150 continue to recognize the value of maintaining a collaborative relationship to improve safety and health practices and programs in American workplaces and commit to continue their work together through an Alliance Program Ambassador relationship.

In recognition of this ongoing commitment, OSHA will continue to foster an active relationship with Teamsters, Local 1150 by:

• Providing routine communications on enforcement, regulatory, and outreach initiatives.
• Sharing invitations to and offering opportunities to speak at OSHA Alliance Program and other agency stakeholder meetings or events, such as outreach and training activities through the National, Regional, or Area Office, and the National Alliance Program Construction Roundtable and Forum.
• Engaging in information sharing and technical discussions, as appropriate, including completing special projects of mutual interest that align with agency priorities and as resources allow.
• Maintaining the organization’s status as Alliance Program Ambassadors on the agency’s public webpage.

Teamsters, Local 1150 will continue to foster an active relationship with OSHA by:

• Sharing information with members and stakeholders on OSHA’s National Initiatives (Enforcement, Regulatory, and Outreach), and encouraging their participation in OSHA’s outreach initiatives and rulemaking processes.
• Sharing information with members and stakeholders on occupational safety and health laws and standards, including the rights and responsibilities of workers and employers.
• Encouraging Teamsters, Local 1150 to build relationships with OSHA’s National, Regional and Area Offices to address health and safety issues.
• Sharing information with OSHA personnel and industry safety and health professionals regarding Teamsters, Local 1150 good practices or effective approaches through training programs, workshops, seminars, and lectures (or any other applicable forum).
• Offering OSHA opportunities to speak, exhibit, or appear at one another’s conferences, local meetings, or other events.
• Adhering to requirements laid out in the Alliance Program Directive regarding the prohibition on promoting or implying the agency’s endorsement of their policies, products, or services, including acknowledging that they will not receive any preferential treatment related to any statutory function of the agency.
• Abiding by all terms and conditions for the use of the Alliance Program logo as specified in OSHA’s Guidelines for Use of the Alliance Logo.

OSHA’s cooperative programs provide organizations an opportunity to participate in a voluntary, collaborative relationship with OSHA for purposes such as raising awareness of OSHA’s initiatives, outreach, communication, training, and education. These programs have proven to be valuable tools for both OSHA and participants. By entering into this Ambassador relationship, OSHA is not endorsing or promoting, nor does it intend to endorse or promote, any of that organization’s products or services.

This Ambassador relationship will remain in effect for the duration of an on-going cooperative association and a good faith effort by all parties to meet the intent of this document and its underlying policies. Any signatory may terminate it for any reason at any time, provided that signatory gives 30 days’ written notice. Termination by one signatory will not nullify the Ambassador relationship with all signatories, with the exception of OSHA; OSHA may terminate the Ambassador relationship as a whole, or its relationship with one or more individual signatories.

Signed this 7th day of November, 2022.

AGREEMENT ESTABLISHING AN ALLIANCE
BETWEEN
AUGUSTA AREA OFFICE
AND
BANGOR DISTRICT OFFICE
THE OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
AND
MAINE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR WORKPLACE SAFETY AND HEALTH DIVISION- SAFETYWORKS!
AND
CONSTRUCTION SAFETY ALLIANCE OF MAINE

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Augusta Area Office, Bangor District Office, Maine 21(d) On-Site Consultation Program-SafetyWorks! (SafetyWorks!), and Construction Safety Alliance of Maine (CSAM) recognize the value of establishing a collaborative relationship to foster safety and health practices and programs to improve American workplaces. To that end, OSHA, SafetyWorks!, and CSAM hereby form an Alliance to provide CSAM members and the public with information, guidance, and access to training resources that will help them protect workers by reducing and preventing exposure to construction workplace safety and health hazards and addressing upcoming and on going trends in construction safety and health, and understand the rights of workers and the responsibilities of employers under the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act).

This agreement provides a framework and objectives for the Alliance's activities. Alliance participants also agree to meet the "Fundamental Requirements for OSHA Alliance Program Participants" and the "Guidelines for OSHA's Alliance Program Participants: Alliance Products and Other Alliance Projects."

Through the Alliance, the organizations will use available injury, illness, and hazard exposure data, when appropriate, to help identify areas of emphasis for Alliance awareness, outreach, and communication activities. The Alliance will also explore and implement selected options, including but not limited to member surveys, to evaluate the Alliance and measure the impact on improving workplace safety and health. In developing this Alliance, OSHA, SafetyWorks!, and CSAM recognize that OSHA's State Plan and On-Site Consultation Program partners are an integral part of the OSHA national effort, and that information about the products and activities of the Alliance may be shared with these partners for the advancement of common goals.

Raising Awareness: Outreach and Communication

The Participants intend to work together to achieve the following objectives:

• Share information on OSHA's National/Regional/Local Initiatives (Emphasis Programs, Regulatory Agenda, Outreach), and opportunities to participate in initiatives and the rulemaking process.
• Share information on occupational safety and health laws and standards, including the rights and responsibilities of workers and employers.
• Develop information on the recognition and prevention of workplace hazards, and communicate such information (e.g., print and electronic media, electronic assistance tools, and OSHA, SafetyWorks!, and the CSAM websites) to employers and workers in the industry.
• Speak, exhibit, or appear at OSHA, SafetyWorks!, and CSAM conferences, local meetings, or other construction safety related events in Maine.
• Convene or participate in forums, roundtable discussions, or stakeholder meetings on variety of construction related topics to help forge innovative solutions in the workplace or to provide input on safety and health issues.
• Share information among OSHA personnel, SafetyWorks!, and industry safety and health professionals regarding CSAM's good practices or effective approaches through training programs, workshops, seminars, and lectures (or any other applicable forum).
• Encourage worker participation in workplace safety and health by posting information such as safety stand down locations and times on social media and alliance website.
• Collaborate with other Alliance participants on specific issues and projects on construction workplace safety and health.
• Develop and disseminate case studies on construction safety related topics and publicize their results.
• Encourage CSAM to build relationships with OSHA's Regional and Area Offices and SafetyWorks! to address health and safety issues, including keeping on top of upcoming and current trends in relation to construction safety and health.
• Develop a network of like-minded Safety Professionals that wish to work with each other
• Share Lessons Learned in an open, judgment free manner
• Share Safety Best practices

Training and Education

The Participants intend to work together to achieve the following objectives:

• To deliver or arrange for the delivery of educational courses in conjunction with other area office alliances courses.
• To develop effective training and education programs for construction safety professionals to promote understanding of workers' rights, including the use of the OSHA complaint process, and the responsibilities of employers and to communicate such information to workers and employers

OSHA's Alliances provide organizations an opportunity to participate in a voluntary cooperative relationship with OSHA and SafetyWorks! for purposes such as raising awareness of OSHA's and SafetyWorks! initiatives, outreach, communications, training, and education. These Alliances have proven to be valuable tools for both OSHA, SafetyWorks!, and Alliance participants. By entering into an Alliance with an organization, OSHA is not endorsing or promoting, nor does it intend to endorse or promote, any of that organization's products or services.

An implementation team made up of representatives of each organization will meet one to two times per year to track and share information on activities and results in achieving the goals of the Alliance. OSHA team members will include representatives of the Bangor District Office and the Augusta Area Office and any other appropriate offices.

This agreement will remain in effect for two years. Any signatory may terminate it for any reason at any time, provided that signatory gives 30 days' written notice to the others. This agreement may be modified at any time with the written concurrence of all signatories.

Signed this 3 day of August, 2022.