1. OSHA 10 Adding Value and Competitive Advantage
Project started as an outgrowth of our work together on Illinois Healthcare Initiative. Needed a way to explain to Business Community – Business Owners -- Answer Questions
Why should I care about safety?
What does Safety Excellence look like?
Why is it important to me?
How does it add value and provide me with competitive advantage.
Real Business Cases (short case studies)
Tool to use a variety of ways
Presentation to Managers / Business Leaders, Chamber of Commerce, etc.
Case study for internal use/workshop for larger companies
Business School – interject into material
MBA students
Executive Education
Phase II
We hope to continue to add more cases to build our portfolio in different industries on difference subjects.
An suggestions --- let me know ----
James Walker
KAR Auction Services
Sr. Dir. EH&S

2. Workplace Statistics FACT
Nearly 50 workers are injured every minute of the 40-hour work week.
FACT
Almost 17 of these workers die each day.

3. OSHA’s Continuing Mission
More than 4,400 Americans die from workplace injuries every year.
Perhaps as many as 50,000 workers die from illnesses in which workplace exposures were a contributing factor.
More than 3 million workers suffer a serious non fatal injury or illness annually.

4. Rate of Fatal Workplace Injuries

5. Financial Impact
Workplace injuries and fatalities cost our economy $198.2 billion a year.
— National Safety Council
“Injury Facts” 2014

6. Direct Vs Indirect Costs of Accidents
Safety Iceberg Theory
Direct Vs Indirect Costs of Accidents
Medical (doctor visits, physical therapy, medicine, etc.)
Reduced productivity
Accident investigation
Administrative costs
Lost time by supervisor
Costs of training replacement worker
Overtime
Legal fees
Equipment repair
Negative publicity
Damage to customer relations

7. Benefits of Effective Safety and Health Programs
OSHA 10 can help:
Reduce work related injuries and illnesses
Improve morale and productivity
Reduce workers’ compensation costs
Help avoid litigation and costly incident claims
Employ a safe working atmosphere

8. OSHA 10 Training Topics Mandatory – 7 hours
Introduction to OSHA – 2 hours
Workers, employer responsibilities
Walking and Working Surfaces – 1 hour
Exit Routes, Emergency Action Plans, Fire Prevention Plans and Fire Protection – 1 hour
Electrical – 1 hour
Personal Protective Equipment – 1 hour
Hazardous Communication – 1 hour
Elective – 2 hours
Hazardous Materials
Bloodborne Pathogens
Safety and Health Programs
Ergonomics
Materials Handling

9. Customized OSHA 10 Training
Customized training to auto auction industry
Relates each topic to actual working conditions
Able to adjust hours to be more auction, region or industry specific
Coordinate each OSHA topic to action based scenarios
Education on each topic and demonstrate how to integrate into operations

10. Barriers to Integration
Too often:
We have a focus on reactive rather than proactive focus
Lack of understanding (vocabulary)
Risks & hazards are poorly communicated
Safety is considered a cost … not an investment
Cost/benefit analysis is rarely applied to justify the safety case
These are common barrier we encounter in trying to integrate a culture of safety into a business –

11. Safety Excellence Model Requires…
Management
Commitment
Employee Involvement
Systems
Excellence in Safety adds value and provides competitive advantage –
What does Excellence in Safety look like?
High quality safety programs have four key aspects common to them all –
Management Commitment
EE Involvement
Safety & Health site leadership
Strong Systems (Policies, Processes, Programs, Procedures)
Safety and Health
Site Leadership

12. Management Commitment Means…
Valuing and caring for human resources
Demonstrating a visible commitment with continuous involvement
Setting high expectations and accountability for safety
Motivating proper behaviors through leadership
“Walk the Talk”
Providing resources to affect change
Encouraging employee involvement
Describing what we mean by Management Commitment
(All about “Leadership”)

13. Employee Involvement Means…
Shared ownership of and commitment to the program
Active support of the program
Accountability for one’s personal safety and that of his/her co-workers
EE involvement and “Shared Ownership” of the program is fundamental to it’s success –
Without EE’s direct and continued involvement in the safety effort – the Best Processes, Programs, and Procedures are worthless –

14. Ways to Involve Employees…
Regular communication with employees on the subject of safety, risk, and hazards
Provide access to information
Provide ways to participate in the program
e.g., worksite self inspections, safety and health annual evaluation process, incident investigation
Provide ways to report hazards, injuries and make recommendations to control hazards
Many ways to involve EE’s in the safety effort.

15. Most frequently cited OSHA standards during FY 2016 inspections
OSHA Top 10 Citation 2016
1. Fall Protection
2. Hazard Communication
3. Scaffolding
4. Respiratory Protection
5. Lockout/Tagout
6. Powered Industrial Trucks
7. Ladders
8. Machine Guarding
9. Electrical Wiring
10. Electrical – General Requirements
Top Ten
Violations
Most frequently cited OSHA standards during FY inspections
This is a list of the top 10 most frequently cited standards following inspections of worksites by federal OSHA. OSHA publishes this list to alert employers about these commonly cited standards so they can take steps to find and fix recognized hazards addressed in these and other standards before OSHA shows up.
The following slides show the top 5 sub-sections that OSHA cites for each of these standards.

16. OSHA Increased Citations and Penalties
Type of Violation Maximum Penalty Maximum Penalty
Serious $7,000 per violation $12,471 per violation
Failure to Abate $7,000 per day $12,471 per day
Willful or Repeated $70,000 per violation $124,709 per violation

17. OSHA Inspections OSHA will inspect if: Imminent danger
Serious incidents
Employee complaints
Agency referrals
Targeted inspections
Follow-up inspections

18. Recordkeeping Modernization
As of January 1, 2015, all employers must report to their local OSHA Area Office, or the following:
All work-related fatalities within 8 hours
All work-related inpatient hospitalizations
All amputations
Physical losses of an eye (not eyesight)within 24 hours.
*On-line reporting capability is available.

19. Protecting Temporary Workers: A Joint Responsibility
Both host employers and staffing agencies have roles in complying with workplace health and safety requirements and they share responsibility for ensuring worker safety and health.
Legally, both the host employer and the staffing agency are employers of the temporary worker.
Shared control over worker = Shared responsibility for worker

20. Temporary Employee Statistics…
3 million people are employed by staffing companies every week.
11 million temporary and contract employees are hired by U.S. staffing firms over the course of a year.

21. Temporary Worker Initiative
In all inspections, OSHA’s inspectors ask about the presence of temp workers, the hazards to which they are exposed, and the training they have received.
Auto Auctions are seeing an impact.

22. Safety’s Role Within Operations
Safety must be considered at every step in the value chain
Designing safety into a process is cheaper than retrofitting for safety later.
To be able to effectively manage a program and improve safety… measurements must include:
Both Leading and Trailing Indicators
Leading indicators should correlate with trailing ones.

23. Safety’s Role Management / Organizational Behavior
Leadership and employee empowerment are keys to creating a proactive safety culture.
Senior management commitment is critical to improving safety
Promote program results both internally and externally
Management directed but employee driven.

24. Implementing Safety Excellence
Assume all incidents are preventable
Assume all exposures/risks can be controlled
Involve employees
Make working safely a condition of employment
Train employees to work safely
Promote off-the-job safety
Audit safety
Companies that have demonstrated excellence in safety performance generally have done these things.

25. Questions??? James Walker Sr. Dir. KAR Auction Services