Mission:
"To provide construction safety assistance to all
agency components and plan and manage a program working with the construction
industry to enhance safety awareness and reduce construction accidents."
Activities:
- Establishes and maintains contacts at all levels of management and labor in
the construction industry to facilitate communication and enhance general safety
awareness.
- Provides liaison with the Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and
Health by interacting with the committee and providing technical and program
information regarding the Agency's activities in the construction field and
soliciting input for decision-making.
- Maintains technical liaison with appropriate agencies, consensus standards
groups and other professionals in the construction industry in the technology
involved in construction safety and health programs in order to evaluate new
techniques and recommend those which are most effective ad efficient for OSHA
application.
- Ensures that client groups affected by OSHA's activities in the construction
field are given adequate appropriate information and notice regarding the
Agency's activities and represents the construction program interests in other
Agency's programs.
- Coordinates with the Office of Training and Education to provide technical
data needed for training programs and educational material in the construction
field.
- Keeps abreast of workplace technological developments involving construction
industry practices and specific work processes in order to advise OSHA programs
offices of their impact on existing standards, priorities and procedures.
- Coordinates demonstration and experimental projects related to construction.
- Provides technical assistance in developing comprehensive programs for
construction occupational health compliance and incident investigation
activities.
- Coordinates with the Directorates of Enforcement, and Standards and Guidance, the development and maintenance of policies, procedures, instruction
and directives for the agency's construction industrial hygiene programs.
- Coordinates with and provides assistance to the other regulatory agencies on
the implementation and enforcement of major construction laws and standards.
- Coordinates OSHA policy regarding construction occupational injury and
illness statistics; advises and consults with key OSHA officials on safety and
health issues and provides data analysis for decision making at the policy
level.
- Coordinates targeting strategy for directing construction safety and health
inspections conducted by Federal OSHA and States with State Plans under Section
18 b/e of the OSH Act of 1970 to construction projects and contractors with high
rates or large numbers of occupational fatalities injuries and illnesses.
- Evaluates the effectiveness of nationwide construction targeting programs to
meet agency needs.
- Conducts specialized surveys using quantitative or statistical methods to
facilitate research on specific construction safety and health issues.
- Maintains liaison with NIOSH and BLS to obtain construction injury and
illness data.
- Provides statistical and analytical support to organizational components of
the agency to aid in long-term planning and analysis for the construction
industry.
- Reviews internal and external data bases to evaluate construction industry
data.
- Reviews the construction data maintained on the IMIS database and makes
recommendations for information to be added or removed.
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