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Welcome to
CoreInsights, CoreAdvantage’s
Monthly VPP
Bulletin.
CoreInsights has been
designed to provide helpful tips and advice to VPPPA members,
Safety and Health professonals, their managment and colleagues in
order to assist in creating continuous safety and health
improvement.
Volume 4 Number 1
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"HOT ISSUE"
EXCHANGE - Annual OSHA Reports – An Opportunity to
Market your Successes
- Got a sticky question? Bring it
on.
- Would you like some free consulting? Now's your
chance.
Continue sending me your "head
scratchers" that you just can't seem to resolve.
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"HOT ISSUE"
QUESTIONS & ADVICE
Question: “We are a new VPP site. Do you have
any advice on how best to pull together our annual OSHA report?
First, before you begin to write your annual
OSHA report you need to have conducted your annual VPP program
review.
The annual VPP program review is a critical
benchmarking of your safety management systems against the VPP criteria.
Your annual OSHA report is a combination of the results from
your annual VPP program review, your site rates, and a narrative of
significant changes and or accomplishments. This is your time to market
yourself to OSHA and tell them all the good things that have happened.
Here are specific recommendations:
1.
Follow the format provided by your OSHA Regional VPP Manager
or in the absence of specific regional advice, use the format in
the TED 8.4 Appendix D
2. Ensure that you have done a thorough benchmarking against each
of the VPP criteria. Don’t pencil whip an annual program
review based on your historical knowledge.
3. Use a team
approach to perform the benchmarking review. It’s a real mistake
for just one person to write up a report from their own historical
knowledge. Your annual program review (bench marking) and the annual OSHA
report is an important feedback loop within the VPP model that is designed
to drive continuous improvement.
4. Be open and honest; report areas in need of
improvement and your plans to address them.
5. Make sure that your rate data and "applicable"
contractors (worked more than 1,000 hours in any calendar
quarter) data are accurate. Separate your rates from your
contractors.
6. Include data on significant changes and events
and, what you feel have been your significant accomplishments for
the year. Provide information on what you believe is your best practices.
Provide data on any outreach efforts.
For additional
help, a tool that you may find helpful is our SafePath VPP Foundation
product. VPP Foundation breaks the VPP criteria down into 36 auditable
elements. Each element is coupled with expert guidance. This allows for a
systematic review. VPP Foundation
was designed to facilitate your internal
review whether initially applying for VPP certification or for conducting
on-going annual program reviews.
To see a demonstration click
here: VPP Foundation
KEEP YOUR QUESTIONS COMING AND I
WILL DO MY BEST TO PROVIDE OR GET YOU ANSWERS
Email
me by clicking
here.
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If you are struggling with issues such as leadership, employee
ownership, establishing the proper mix of measures, or your rates have
stalled, perhaps it’s time for assistance from an outside third party.
Frequently a person from outside an organization can help facilitate
change a lot easier than a person from within.
Evaluating VPP
management systems is the core of my practice.
If I can be of any assistance please give me a call at 303.499.4111 or
Visit us on the web at: http://www.core-advantage.com.
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CoreAdvantage and
TriageTraining recently launched
two new products in the SafePath product family, “VPP Foundation” and
"SafePath KPI".
VPP Foundation
is designed to explain the basics of the
VPP model and helps you confidently build a path to certification. Model
policies and a series of benchmarks are provided for each VPP sub-element.
Publish VPP Foundation to a local area network or intranet server and it
will help you educate everyone from executives to front line workforce in
order to gain buy-in and commitment.
To see a demo of VPP
foundation click here: VPP Foundation
SafePath KPI is designed to enable you to
develop and publish your key performance indicators. To see an example
SafePath Dashboard that can help you manage and publish metrics click
here: SafePath KPI
To learn more about the SafePath
product family click here:
SafePath
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