OSHA's Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs provide you with a straightforward, stepwise approach to setting up your safety and health program. The approach is based around …

The Recommended Practices present a step-by-step approach to implementing a safety and health program, built around seven core elements that make up a successful program.

Establish safety and health as a core value. Tell your workers that making sure they finish the day and go home safely is the way you do business. Assure them that you will work with them to find and fix …

An effective plan will address serious hazards first. Interim controls may be necessary, but the overall goal is to ensure effective long-term control of hazards.

The Occupational Safety and Health Act requires employers to comply with safety and health standards and regulations promulgated by OSHA or by a state with an OSHA‐approved state plan.

This tool compares the core elements and action items from OSHA's Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs to other safety and health program standards and guidelines.

There are 29 OSHA-approved State Plans operating state-wide occupational safety and health programs. State Plans are required to have standards and enforcement programs that are at least as …

Initially and at least annually, employers need to evaluate the program to ensure that it is operating as intended, is effective in controlling identified hazards, and is making progress toward established …

This instruction describes a federal program change that establishes OSHA’s enforcement policy for Process Safety Management of Highly Hazardous Chemicals, 29 CFR § 1910.119 (PSM standard).

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