April 21, 2003—The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has signed an alliance with the Georgetown University Center for Business and Public Policy (CBPP) that joins the two organizations in an effort to foster safer and more healthful American workplaces.
This is OSHA’s first alliance with the educational community. OSHA hopes that the Alliance signifies the need to have educational institutions promote the value of workplace safety and health issues. CBPP, which is part of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, indicated their belief that there are “real linkages between the economic performance of companies and the pursuit of basic social welfare matters that can make safety a dominant economic strategy.”
The alliance with Georgetown University focuses on training and education. OSHA and CBPP will work cooperatively to continue an active dialogue on safety and health issues by supporting the Center’s annual Workplace Safety Summit. Both organizations will participate in the ongoing Industry, Policy, and Safety Seminar Series that brings together scholars, business leaders, and policy makers to discuss workplace safety and health research, while investigating the economic and ethical dimensions of workplace safety and health.
OSHA and CBPP have also agreed to encourage the advancement of workplace safety and health as a topic for education in business schools’ curricula, and will also explore opportunities to devise executive education courses and publications for the current executive workforce on the business value that workplace safety and health brings.
They will also participate in working group meetings that explore workplace safety and health and other policy issues, and share information on each organization’s Web sites. Finally, representatives from OSHA and CBPP will participate in conferences, local meetings, and other events to help communicate the importance of sound workplace safety and health.
