Local Emphasis Program in WI for Food Manufacturing Industry
- Record Type:
- Current Directive Number:
- Title:Local Emphasis Program in WI for Food Manufacturing Industry
- Information Date:
This directive is currently only available in: PDF
region5
* This is one of the 29 OSHA-approved State Plans. Twenty-two State Plans (21 states and Puerto Rico) cover both private and state and local government workplaces. The other seven State Plans (Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and the Virgin Islands) cover state and local government workers only.
This directive is currently only available in: PDF
Since entering into an Alliance on October 4, 2006, with subsequent renewal(s) on November 16, 2009, November 15, 2012 and June 29, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Eau Claire, Wisconsin Area Office and Chippewa Valley Technical College 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 CVTC 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 CVTC by:
CVTC will continue to foster an active relationship with OSHA by:
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 ongoing cooperative association and a good faith effort by both parties to meet the intent of this document and its underlying policies. Either signatory may terminate it for any reason at any time, provided they give 30 days’ written notice.
Signed this 29th day of July, 2021.
Ruth ‘Mitzy’ Wright
Eau Claire OSHA Area Director
Occupational Safety and
Health Administration
Dr. Sunem Beaton-Garcia
President
Chippewa Valley Technical College
This directive is currently only available in: PDF
Since entering into an Alliance on November 3, 2009, with subsequent renewals on November 26, 2012, and August 3, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Eau Claire, Wisconsin Area Office and Northwood Technical College (formerly known as Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College) 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 NORTHWOOD TECHNICAL COLLEGE 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 NORTHWOOD TECHNICAL COLLEGE by:
NORTHWOOD TECHNICAL COLLEGE will continue to foster an active relationship with OSHA by:
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 ongoing cooperative association and a good faith effort by both parties to meet the intent of this document and its underlying policies. Either signatory may terminate it for any reason at any time, provided they give 30 days' written notice.
Signed this 2nd day of July, 2021.
Ruth ‘Mitzy’ Wright
Eau Claire OSHA Area Director
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
John Will
President
Northwood Technical College
This document is currently only available in: PDF
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Illinois Area Offices and the Consulate General of Mexico in Chicago (the Consulate), hereinafter referred to collectively as “the Participants;”
RECOGNIZING the joint commitment to protect workers’ rights for Mexican workers in the United States; and
RECOGNIZING that OSHA’s Alliance Program provides for the establishment of cooperative relationships for purposes such as training and education, outreach and communication, and promoting a national dialogue on workplace safety and health;
Intend to form an Alliance to achieve the following:
Overall Objective
The Participants intend to establish a collaborative relationship to provide Mexican Nationals in Illinois within the circumscription of the Consulate (hereinafter, “the Consulate’s circumscription”) information, guidance, and access to education and training resources to promote workers’ rights in protecting their occupational safety and health, and to help them understand U.S. domestic law on the rights of workers and the responsibilities of employers under the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act).
Training and Education
The Participants intend to work together to achieve the following training and education goals:
Outreach and Communication
The Participants intend to work together to achieve the following outreach and communication goals:
Promotion of a National Dialogue
The Participants intend to work together to achieve the following goals related to promoting a joint dialogue on workplace safety and health:
An implementation team made up of representatives of each Participant intends to meet to develop a plan of action, determine working procedures, and identify the roles and responsibilities of the Participants. In addition, the Participants intend to meet at least three times per year to track and share information on activities and results in achieving the goals of the Alliance.
Nothing in this Arrangement commits the Participants to the expenditure of any funds.
This Arrangement may commence upon signature by both Participants. This Arrangement may continue for two (2) years from the date of signing. A Participant should endeavor to provide thirty (30) days advanced written notice of its intent to discontinue the Arrangement. This Arrangement may be modified in writing at any time by mutual consent of the Participants.
Signed at Chicago, Illinois, in duplicate, this 23rd day of October, 2020 in the English and Spanish languages.
FOR THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR’S OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION ILLINOIS AREA OFFICES
William J. Donovan
Acting Regional Administrator
FOR THE CONSULATE GENERAL OF
MEXICO IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Reyna Torres Mendivil
Consul General
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Eau Claire and Madison Area Offices in Wisconsin and the Consulate of Mexico in St. Paul, Minnesota (the Consulate), hereinafter referred to collectively as “the Participants”;
RECOGNIZING the joint commitment to protect workers’ rights for Mexican workers in the United States; and
RECOGNIZING that OSHA’s Alliance Program provides for the establishment of cooperative relationships for purposes such as training and education, outreach and communication, and promoting a national dialogue on workplace safety and health;
Intend to form an Alliance to achieve the following:
Overall Objective
The Participants intend to establish a collaborative relationship to provide Mexican Nationals in the areas of Wisconsin where the Consulate and OSHA have jurisdiction, and others information, guidance, and access to education and training resources to promote workers’ rights in protecting their occupational safety and health, and to help them understand U.S. domestic law on the rights of workers and the responsibilities of employers under the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act).
Training and Education
The Participants intend to work together to achieve the following training and education goals:
Outreach and Communication
The Participants intend to work together to achieve the following outreach and communication goals:
Promotion of a National Dialogue
The Participants intend to work together to achieve the following goals related to promoting a joint dialogue on workplace safety and health:
An implementation team made up of representatives of each Participant intends to meet to develop a plan of action, determine working procedures, and identify the roles and responsibilities of the Participants. In addition, the Participants intend to meet at least three times per year to track and share information on activities and results in achieving the goals of the Alliance.
Nothing in this Arrangement commits the Participants to the expenditure of any funds.
This Arrangement may commence upon signature by both Participants. This Arrangement may continue for two (2) years from the date of signing. A Participant should endeavor to provide thirty (30) days advanced written notice of its intent to discontinue the Arrangement. This Arrangement may be modified in writing at any time by mutual consent of the Participants.
Signed at Saint Paul, Minnesota, in duplicate, this 3rd day of September, 2020, in the English and Spanish languages.
FOR THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF
LABOR’S OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY
AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
EAU CLAIRE AREA OFFICE:
Ruth Wright
Area Director
FOR THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF
LABOR’S OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY
AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
MADISON AREA OFFICE:
Chad Greenwood
Area Director
FOR THE CONSULATE OF MEXICO IN
SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA:
Gerardo Guerrero Gómez
Consul of Mexico
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Chicago Regional Office and the Consulate General of Ecuador in Chicago (the Consulate), hereinafter referred to individually as “Participant” and collectively as “the Participants”;
Recognizing the joint commitment to protect the well-being of Ecuadorian workers in the United States acknowledged in the Letter of Arrangement between the Occupational Safety and Health Administration of the United States of America and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Commerce and Integration of Ecuador, signed at Washington, D.C., on August 26th, 2016; and
Recognizing that OSHA’s Alliance Program provides for the establishment of cooperative relationships for purposes such as training and education, outreach and communication, and promoting a national dialogue on workplace safety and health;
Intend to form an Alliance to achieve the following:
Overall Objective
The Participants intend to establish a collaborative relationship to provide Ecuadorian nationals in Chicago and the Participants’ common jurisdiction and others, information, guidance, and access to education and training resources to promote workers’ rights in protecting their occupational safety and health, and to help them understand the rights of workers and the responsibilities of employers under the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act).
Training and Education
The Participants intend to work together to achieve the following training and education goals:
Outreach and Communication
The Participants intend to work together to achieve the following outreach and communication goals:
Promotion of a National Dialogue
The Participants intend to work together to achieve the following goals related to promoting a national dialogue on workplace safety and health:
An implementation team made up of representatives of each Participant intends to meet to develop a plan of action, determine working procedures, and identify the roles and responsibilities of the Participants. In addition, the Participants intend to meet at least three times per year to track and share information on activities and results in achieving the goals of the Alliance.
Nothing in this Arrangement commits the Participants to the expenditure of any funds.
This Arrangement may commence upon signature by both Participants. This Arrangement is intended to discontinue two (2) years from the date of signing. A Participant should endeavor to provide thirty (30) days advance written notice of its intent to discontinue its participation in this Arrangement. This Arrangement may be modified in writing at any time by mutual consent of the Participants.
Signed at Chicago, Illinois, in duplicate, this 25th day of January 2021, in the English and Spanish languages.
For the U.S. Department of Labor’s
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Chicago Regional Office:
William J. Donovan
Acting Regional Administrator
For the Consulate of Ecuador
in Chicago:
Humberto Jiménez Torres
Consul
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Appleton (including coverage for the Upper Peninsula of Michigan), Eau Claire, Madison and Milwaukee Area offices and the Consulate of Mexico in Milwaukee, hereinafter referred to collectively as “the Participants”;
RECOGNIZING the joint commitment to protect workers’ rights for Mexican workers in the United States; and
RECOGNIZING that OSHA’s Alliance Program provides for the establishment of cooperative relationships for purposes such as training and education, outreach and communication, and promoting a national dialogue on workplace safety and health;
Intend to form an Alliance to achieve the following:
Overall Objective
The Participants intend to establish a collaborative relationship to provide Mexican nationals in Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and others information, guidance, and access to education and training resources to promote workers’ rights in protecting their occupational safety and health, and to help them understand U.S. domestic law on the rights of workers and the responsibilities of employers under the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act).
Training and Education
The Participants intend to work together to achieve the following training and education goals:
Outreach and Communication
The Participants intend to work together to achieve the following outreach and communication goals:
Promotion of a National Dialogue
The Participants intend to work together to achieve the following goals related to promoting a joint dialogue on workplace safety and health:
An implementation team made up of representatives of each Participant intends to meet to develop a plan of action, determine working procedures, and identify the roles and responsibilities of the Participants. In addition, the Participants intend to meet at least three times per year to track and share information on activities and results in achieving the goals of the Alliance.
Nothing in this Arrangement commits the Participants to the expenditure of any funds.
This Arrangement may commence upon signature by both Participants. This Arrangement may continue for two (2) years from the date of signing. A Participant should endeavor to provide thirty (30) days advanced written notice of its intent to discontinue the Arrangement. This Arrangement may be modified in writing at any time by mutual consent of the Participants.
Signed at Milwaukee, WI, in duplicate, this 8th day of September 2020 in the Spanish and English languages.
FOR THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF
LABOR’S OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND
HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
APPLETON AREA OFFICE AND THE
UPPER PENINSULA OF MICHIGAN
Robert Bonack
Area Director
FOR THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF
LABOR’S OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND
HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
EAU CLAIRE AREA OFFICE
Ruth Wright
Area Director
FOR THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF
LABOR’S OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND
HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
MADISON AREA OFFICE
Chad Greenwood
Area Director
FOR THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF
LABOR’S OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND
HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
MILWAUKEE AREA OFFICE
Christine Zortman
Area Director
FOR THE CONSULATE OF MEXICO IN
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN
Julian Adem Diaz de Leon
Consul of Mexico