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Voluntary Protection Program
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has undertaken to develop a matrix that guides employers at work places that would significantly reduce their vulnerability to terrorist attacks as well as reduce the effect of the explosion if any arises hence increasing the internal security of each employee within the premises among other major policies formulated to protect employees at workplaces (Counter Terrorism, 2011).
Voluntary Protection Programs therefore works with OSHA and national Bureau of Labor Statistics in ensuring the safety of the employees at work. VPP is mandated with recognizing employers and employees within the private sector and federal agencies that have effectively implemented the safety and health management systems. They also recognize such organizations that have maintained the injury and illness rates of the employees...
There is need to get the support of the union and these members are reevaluated after every three or five years. Effectively, having met the threshold of the VPP, the members are exempt from OSHA programmed inspections.
This above then…
References
Beverly Ford, (2012). Massachusetts workers killed, seriously injured at OSHA designated
"Model Workplaces." Retrieved February 12, 2013 from http://necir-bu.org/investigations/model-workplaces/
Counter Terrorism, (2011). Community Preparedness. Retrieved February 12, 2013 from http://www.counterterrorismtraining.gov/comm/index.html
David E. & Mark A.(2012). OSHA releases report on Voluntary Protection Program.
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Retrieved February 12, 2013 from http://www.osha.gov/dcsp/vpp/index.html
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