New OSHA Design for Safety Web Page/NIOSH Ptd Efforts Advancing
Through ASSE’s Alliance with OSHA, John Mroszczyk has played a vitally important role in helping OSHA develop various resources to advance design for safety, or prevention through design (PtD), as NIOSH is calling its own efforts. Below is OSHA’s announcement of OSHA’s resources developed through the efforts of John, Nigel Ellis who is another ASSE member and other participants.
John and long-time leaders in the design for safety movement, Fred Manuele and Wayne Christensen, along with Mike Behm of East Carolina University, who are all ASSE members, members of NIOSH’s PtD Council, which met May 3 in DC to help focus the Council members on NIOSH’s work to continue to energize the OSH community to advance acceptance and incorporation of Ptd in design, engineering, safety and other efforts. Information on NIOSH’s considerable efforts, which is led by Donna Heidel under Paul Schulte’s area of responsibility at NIOSH, can be accessed at http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/ptd/.
From Barney Lawrence of OSHA’s Office of Outreach Services and Alliances –
I wanted to let you know that Design Solution documents developed through the Alliance Program’s Construction Roundtable have been posted on the Design for Construction Safety Web site (www.designforconstructionsafety.org) – see the Media tab. We’ll be adding links to these documents on the OSHA Web site, including the Construction Roundtable page at: http://www.osha.gov/dcsp/alliances/roundtables/roundtables_construction.html. Many thanks to John Mroszczyk, Matt Gillen, Nigel Ellis, and Luke George for developing these documents; to Dean McKenzie, Fran Dougherty, and others for reviewing them; and to Mike Toole for posting them on the Design for Construction Safety Web site.