ADDENDUM II
AN INTRODUCTION TO
THE OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
1. THE AGENCY – ITS CURRENT STRUCTURE
1.1. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is headed by an Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health. OSHA is grouped into Directorates headed by members of the Senior Executive Service. Regional Offices, Subordinate Area and District Offices, and/or Service Centers carry out the various programs within OSHA. The major organizational elements within OSHA are:
1.2. Office of the Assistant Secretary
A. The Office of the Assistant Secretary “advises and assists the Secretary of Labor on all matters related to the policies and programs that are to assure safe and healthful working conditions for the working men and women of the Nation, and provides executive direction to the occupational safety and health program.”
1.3. Directorate of Administrative Programs
A. The Directorate of Administrative Programs “provides administrative management support to OSHA in the areas of management data and statistics coordination, personnel management, program budgeting and planning, financial control, administrative management systems, and national office administrative services.”
1.4. Directorate of Construction
A. The Directorate of Construction “serves as OSHA's principal source for standards, regulations, policy, programs, and assistance to OSHA Offices, other Federal agencies, the construction industry, and the general public with respect to construction safety and health.”
1.5. Directorate of Compliance Programs
A. The Directorate of Compliance Programs “provides a balanced program of compliance for OSHA; establishes and maintains a comprehensive occupational safety and health compliance guidance and assistance program; and establishes and maintains discrimination complaint investigation programs.”
1.6. Directorate of Federal/State Operations
A. The Directorate of Federal/State Operations “provides for the development, evaluation, and performance analysis of State occupational safety and health programs; educates and trains employers and employees in the recognition, avoidance and prevention of unsafe and unhealthful working conditions; provides for a program of consultation and advice to employers and employees and their representative organizations as to effective means of preventing occupational injuries and illnesses; and develops, implements and evaluates voluntary programs in cooperation with industry, labor and their representatives.”
1.7. Directorate of Health Standards Programs
A. The Directorate of Health Standards Programs “develops and promulgates workplace standards and regulations to ensure healthful working conditions for the Nation's workforce.”
1.8. Directorate of Policy
A. The Directorate of Policy “reconciles the views of Congress, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Secretary of Labor, and the public as to the role of OSHA into a consistent and coherent Agency policy, taking into consideration the economic, technical, and political consequences of Agency actions, including the effects of Agency policies and actions with regard to small businesses.”
1.9. Directorate of Safety Standards Programs
A. The Directorate of Safety Standards Programs “provides workplace standards and regulations to ensure safe working conditions for the Nation's workers.”
1.10. Directorate of Technical Support
A. The Directorate of Technical Support “serves as the principal source of Agency expertise with respect to scientific, engineering, and medical issues involved in the overall occupational safety and health field; and provides technical assistance and support to all other National Office and Regional Office organizations of the Agency.”
1.11. Directorate of Information Technology
A. The Directorate of Information Technology “provides a comprehensive, integrated management information, data collection and analysis, and networked communications program for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.”
1.12. Regional Administrators
A. Regional Administrators “plan, direct, and administer comprehensive occupational safety and health programs throughout OSHA's regions.”
2. THE AGENCY – ITS AUTHORITY
2.1. OSHA’s authority to regulate general industry as it does today and to require industry to comply with its regulations is found in Section 2 “Congressional Findings and Purpose,” of the Act. Section 2 states that: “the Congress finds that personal injuries and illnesses arising out of work situations impose a substantial burden upon, and are a hindrance to, interstate commerce in terms of lost production, wage loss, medical expenses, and disability compensation payments. The Congress declares it to be its purpose and policy, through the exercise of its powers to regulate commerce among the several States and with foreign nations and to provide for the general welfare, to assure so far as possible every working man and woman in the Nation safe and healthful working conditions and to preserve our human resources:
A. By encouraging employers and employees in their efforts to reduce the number of occupational safety and health hazards at their places of employment, and to stimulate employers and employees to institute new and to perfect existing programs for providing safe and healthful working conditions.
B. By providing that employers and employees have separate but dependent responsibilities and rights with respect to achieving safe and healthful working conditions.
C. By authorizing the Secretary of Labor to set mandatory occupational safety and health standards applicable to businesses affecting interstate commerce, and by creating an Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission for carrying out adjudicatory functions under the Act.
D. By building upon advances already made through employer and employee initiative for providing safe and healthful working conditions.
E. By providing for research in the field of occupational safety and health, including the psychological factors involved, and by developing innovative methods, techniques, and approaches for dealing with occupational safety and health problems.
F. By exploring ways to discover latent diseases, establishing causal connections between diseases and work in environmental conditions, and conducting other research relating to health problems, in recognition of the fact that occupational health standards present problems often different from those involved in occupational safety.
G. By providing medical criteria which will assure insofar as practicable that no employee will suffer diminished health, functional capacity, or life expectancy as a result of his work experience.
H. By providing for training programs to increase the number and competence of personnel engaged in the field of occupational safety and health.
I. By providing for the development and promulgation of occupational safety and health standards.
J. By providing an effective enforcement program which shall include a prohibition against giving advance notice of any inspection and sanctions for any individual violating this prohibition.
K. By encouraging the States to assume the fullest responsibility for the administration and enforcement of their occupational safety and health laws by providing grants to the States to assist in identifying their needs and responsibilities in the area of occupational safety and health, to develop plans in accordance with the provisions of this Act, to improve the administration and enforcement of State occupational safety and health laws, and to conduct experimental and demonstration projects in connection therewith.
L. By providing for appropriate reporting procedures with respect to occupational safety and health which procedures will help achieve the objectives of this Act and accurately describe the nature of the occupational safety and health problem.
M. By encouraging joint labor management efforts to reduce injuries and disease arising out of employment.
3. THE AGENCY – ADDRESSES AND PHONE NUMBERS
Assistant Secretary: Headquarters – Washington, DC
Telephone: (202) 693-2000
Deputy Assistant
Telephone: (202) 693-1900
EEOC - Equal Employment Opportunity Coordinator
Telephone: (202) 693-2150
PAO - Public Affairs Office
Telephone: (202) 693-1999
OSMP - Office of Special Management Programs
Telephone: (202) 693-2100
ReO - Reinvention Office
Telephone: (202) 693-1826
Directorate of Administrative Programs: Headquarters – Washington, DC
Telephone: (202) 693-1600
Safety & Health Officer
Telephone: (202) 693-1699
Office of Administrative Services
Telephone: (202) 693-2121
Office of Management Data Systems
Telephone: (202) 693-1700
Office of Management Systems and Organization
Telephone: (202) 693-2002
Office of Personnel Programs
Telephone: (202) 693-1800
Office of Program Budgeting and Financial Management
Telephone: (202) 693-2111
Directorate of Construction: Headquarters – Washington, DC
Division of Construction Services
Telephone: (202) 693-1707
Division of Construction Standards and Compliance Assistance
(202) 693-2345
Division of Engineering Services
Telephone: (202) 693-2346
Directorate of Compliance Programs: Headquarters – Washington, DC
Office of 11(c) Programs (OSHA
Telephone: (202) 693-1200
Office of Federal Agency Programs
Telephone: (202) 693-2122
Office of General Industry - Compliance Assistance
Telephone: (202) 693-2100
Office of Health Compliance Assistance
Telephone: (202) 693-1290
Directorate of Federal-State Operations: Headquarters – Washington, DC
Office of Consultation
Telephone: (202) 693-2213
Office of State Programs
Telephone: (202) 693-2244
Office of Training and Education
Telephone: (847) 297-4810
OSHA Training Institute
1555 Times Drive
Des Plaines, Illinois 60018
Telephone: (847) 297-4810
Directorate of Health Standards Programs: Headquarters – Washington, DC
Office of Risk Assessment
Telephone: (202) 693-2092
Office of Risk Reduction Technology
Telephone: (202) 693-2090
Office of Standards Analysis and Promulgation
Telephone: (202) 693-2091
Office of Standards Review
Telephone: (202) 693-2093
Directorate for Policy: Headquarters – Washington, DC
Office of Academic and Professional Affairs
Telephone: (202) 693-2400
Office of Program Evaluation
Telephone: (202) 693-2400
Office of Intra-Governmental Affairs
Telephone: (202) 693-2400
Office of Regulatory Analysis
Telephone: (202) 693-2444
Directorate of Safety Standards Programs: Headquarters – Washington, DC
Office of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering Safety Standards
Telephone: (202) 693-2277
Office of Ergonomic Safety Standards
Telephone: (202) 693-2222
Office of Fire Protection Engineering and Systems Safety Standards
Telephone: (202) 693-2255
Office of Maritime Safety Standards
Telephone: (202) 693-2086
Directorate of Technical Support: Headquarters – Washington, DC
Telephone: (202) 693-2300
Cincinnati Technical Center
435 Elm Street, Suite 500
Cincinnati, OH 45202-2673
Telephone: (513) 684-3721
Office of Ergonomics Support (OES)
Telephone: (202) 693-2333
Office of Occupational Health Nursing
Telephone: (202) 693-2120
Office of Occupational Medicine
Telephone: (202) 693-2323
Office of Science and Technology Assessment
Telephone: (202) 693-2095
Salt Lake Technical Center
1781 South 300 West
Salt Lake City, UT 84115-1802
Telephone: (801) 487-0680
Technical Data Center - Docket Office
Telephone: (202) 693-2350
Office of Technical Programs and Coordination
Telephone: (202) 693-2110
Office of Statistics: Headquarters – Washington, DC
Division of Applied Research, Special Studies and Research Publications
Telephone: (202) 693-1702
Division of Data Analysis, U.S. Department of Labor
Telephone: (202) 693-1870
Division of Recordkeeping Requirements
Telephone: (202) 693-1702
Division of Statistical Design, Evaluation and Quality Management
Telephone: (202) 693-1702
Region I
(Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont)
John F. Kennedy Federal Building, Room E340
Boston, Massachusetts 02203
Telephone: (617) 565-9860
Region II
(New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands)
201 Varick Street
Room 670
New York, New York 10014
Telephone: (212) 337-2378
Region III
(District of Columbia, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia)
3535 Market Street
Gateway Building
Suite 2100
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
Telephone: (215) 596-1201
Region IV
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee)
1375 Peachtree Street, NE
Suite 587
Atlanta, Georgia 30367
Telephone: (404) 347-3573
Region V
(Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin)
230 South Dearborn Street
Room 3244
Chicago, Illinois 60604
Telephone: (312) 353-2220
Region VI
(Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
525 Griffin Street
Room 602
Dallas, Texas 75202
Telephone: (214) 767-4731
Region VII
(Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska)
City Center Square
1100 Main Street
Suite 800
Kansas City, Missouri 64105
Telephone: (816) 426-5861
Region VIII
(Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming)
1999 Broadway
Suite 1690
Denver, Colorado 80202-5716
Telephone: (303) 391-5858
Region IX
(Arizona, California, Guam, Hawaii, Nevada)
71 Stevenson Street
San Francisco, California 94105
Telephone: (415) 975-4310
Telephone: (800) 475-4019 Technical Assistance
Telephone: (800) 475-4020 Complaints
Telephone: (800) 475-4022 Publications
Telephone: (415) 975-4319 Fax
Region X
(Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington)
1111 Third Avenue
Suite 715
Seattle, Washington 98101-3212
Telephone: (206) 553-5930
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Safety and Health Compliance Advisory – Part III, OSHA 5/1/00
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