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In the 1990s, political opposition to regulations and calls to eliminate OSHA led to effects "to reinvent OSHA and make it more effective." Then Assistant Secretary Joseph Dear formed a "National Reinvention Steering Team" to respond to the goals laid out for federal agencies by the Government Performance Results Act of 1993. Dear also laid the foundation for a cooperative regulatory approach and opened the rulemaking process to stakeholders (primarily employers) affected by proposed standards, in the hope that the openness would enable stakeholders to agree on general principles so that comments during the formal rulemaking would be more focused. OSHA's reinvention path leads from Maine 200 to the Cooperative Compliance Program (CCP) to Site-Specific Targeting (SST). In response to criticism that OSHA was too confrontational with employers, OSHA undertook a reinvention process in the that included a "cooperative partnership" approach to achieving compliance with health and safety standards. For more on the results of these efforts, read the 1999 Public Citizen's Health Research Group report, Reinventing OSHA: Dangerous Reductions in Enforcement During the Clinton Administration at citizen.org/documents/1494.pdf. This is clipped from the OSHA video of this May 16, 1995 press conference titled The New OSHA: Reinventing Worker Safety and Health. This video is available at the US National Archives in College Park, Maryland.
In the 1990s, political opposition to regulations and calls to eliminate OSHA led to effects "to reinvent OSHA and make it more effective." Then Assistant Secretary Joseph Dear formed a "National Reinvention Steering Team" to respond to the goals laid out for federal agencies by the Government Performance Results Act of 1993. Dear also laid the foundation for a cooperative regulatory approach and opened the rulemaking process to stakeholders (primarily employers) affected by proposed standards, in the hope that the openness would enable stakeholders to agree on general principles so that comments during the formal rulemaking would be more focused. OSHA's reinvention path leads from Maine 200 to the Cooperative Compliance Program (CCP) to Site-Specific Targeting (SST). In response to criticism that OSHA was too confrontational with employers, OSHA undertook a reinvention process in the that included a "cooperative partnership" approach to achieving compliance with health and safety standards. For more on the results of these efforts, read the 1999 Public Citizen's Health Research Group report, Reinventing OSHA: Dangerous Reductions in Enforcement During the Clinton Administration at citizen.org/documents/1494.pdf. This is clipped from the OSHA video of this May 16, 1995 press conference titled The New OSHA: Reinventing Worker Safety and Health. This video is available at the US National Archives in College Park, Maryland.
