VPPPA

No shortage of ideas from OSHA staff to improve oversight of agency's Voluntary Protection Program

cmonforton | August 22, 2012

As first reported yesterday by Chris Hamby at the Center for Public Integrity's IWatch, an internal report on the agency's Voluntary Protection Program (VPP), submitted in November 2011 to OSHA chief David Michaels is now public. Over the months, I'd made my own inquiries to OSHA's public affairs office wondering when the public might be able to read this report. I never received a response, but understand it appeared on OSHA's website on Friday, August 17. Thanks to Hamby for bringing it to our attention. OSHA's VPP dates back to 1983, and recognizes worksites that, in OSHA's words "…

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