We do all kinds of visits and presentations

Ringlock scaffolding We do all kinds of visits and presentations. We have over 200 million visitors to OSHA’s website every year. We have a 1-800 number. We have compliance assistance specialists in most of our regional offices. Our program is not just employer-oriented; we also try to get the word out to workers, especially vulnerable workers who don’t have access to the information.

“While it’s encouraging to see an overall decline in the number of firefighter fatalities, areas of concern remain, particularly sudden cardiac deaths,” Rita Fahy, NFPA’s manager of fire databases and systems, said in a press release.

The fatalities in 2015 included 32 volunteer firefighters, 24 career firefighters, six employees of federal land management agencies and three federal contractors. The final three fatalities were one employee of a state land management agency, one civilian employee of the military and one state prison inmate.

The other point in terms of our overall compliance assistance program is that we’d love to be doing more. We used to have a compliance assistance specialist in every one of our 80-something area offices. We can’t afford to do that anymore. We’ve had some pretty serious budget cuts in the compliance assistance area, which is kind of an irony because we on one hand are criticized by Congress sometimes for not doing enough compliance assistance, and yet they have cut our budget. … Our budget overall for federal compliance assistance was about $76.4 million in 2012, and it’s only $68.4 million today. Consultation is right about the same. So we haven’t seen any growth in our consultation program despite the fact that our needs are at least as great, if not greater, in that area.