Management Systems

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is undertaking a rulemaking effort directed toward requiring employers to establish injury and illness prevention programs (I2P2) to monitor and more effectively implement practices to mitigate workplace hazards, thereby reducing the incidence of employee injuries and illnesses. OSHA believes that widespread implementation of such programs will substantially improve overall workplace safety and health conditions.

More than 30 registered stakeholders gathered June 29 to discuss OSHA’s proposal to issue an injury and illness prevention program (I2P2) rule, the first of two such meetings to be held in the nation’s capital.

In a June 22, 2010 Federal Register Notice OSHA announced two additional stakeholder meetings to discuss  Injury and Illness Prevention Programs.  The two meetings will be held on July 20, 2010 in Washington DC and on August 3, 2010 in Sacramento, CA.  The deadlines to register are July 6 and July 20, 2010 respectively.

These two meetings are in addition to the June 3, 2010 East Brunswick, NJ meeting, the June 10, 2010 Dallas, TX meeting   and the June 29, 2010 Washington, DC meeting.

For more information please see the attached notice.

At the “OSHA Listens” public meeting, held March 4 in Washington, DC and attended by a large number of OSHA stakeholders, ORC Senior Vice President Frank White outlined three ways the agency could improve its policies and programs.