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David Bates
Retired OSHA Area Director (1983–2019) and Veriforce Strategic Advisory Board member, panelist on The Risk Matrix podcast.
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May 13, 2025
Do You Really Know Everything OSHA Does?
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James JunkinHOST
So can you talk just briefly about some of the initiatives that OSHA has and then maybe get into a little bit of conversation about the OSHA Outreach Training Institutes that are out there?
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9:46David BatesGUEST
So one of the reasons that OSHA actually promotes and has partnerships, alliances, the VPP program is one of them, the OSHA Consultation Service, which are all funded through OSHA, is because if companies want to voluntarily comply and they join these programs, OSHA is affecting many more employers and getting to employees.
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10:20David BatesGUEST
You know, there's over 30 million workers in the U.S. and about 8 million work sites.
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10:38David BatesGUEST
And if they sign a partnership with an industry association like the oil and gas industry or a construction group like AGC or the Home Builders Association, and they can sign an alliance and go talk at meetings and get them involved, you might have 200 people show up.
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