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David Bates

Retired OSHA Area Director (1983–2019) and Veriforce Strategic Advisory Board member, panelist on The Risk Matrix podcast.

May 13, 2025

9:33
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?
9:46
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.
10:20
You know, there's over 30 million workers in the U.S. and about 8 million work sites.
10:29
And OSHA, with their staffing, they can't make it to all those.
10:33
And when they do enforcement inspections, it's one inspection at a time.
10:38
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.
10:58
And those 200 people affect how many workers out there.

33 MINS LATER

43:50
I think James does too, but I want to hear it from the horse's mouth.

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