September 2, 2005—The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) just made three significant announcements regarding its Voluntary Protection Program (VPP).
OSHA’s Columbus, Ohio, Area Office became the first-ever Department of Labor (DOL) VPP site; International Paper, headquartered in Memphis, TN, became the third worksite approved as a “VPP Corporate” pilot program participant (along with US Postal Service and Georgia-Pacific Corporation); and General Electric’s (GE) Infrastructure – Security facility in Dublin, Ireland, became the first site accepted into Ireland’s VPP Pilot Program. Ireland is the first country to implement a program modeled on OSHA’s highly successful VPP, which recognizes and promotes outstanding workplace safety and health management.
