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Preparing for OSHA Voluntary Protection Program (VPP): Brick by Brick

Author: Adam Fleming
by Adam Fleming
Posted: Jun 10, 2019

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)’s Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) is the highest award in Health and Safety Excellence that OSHA presents to an organization.

Candidates are selected on the basis of these five factors:

  • Management commitment
  • Employee involvement
  • Workplace Analysis
  • Hazard Prevention and Control

Any Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) professional, new or experienced, assigned the responsibility of overseeing the OSHA VPP program in an organization is bound to find the nuances of this program complex and overwhelming.

Such organizations now have a solution to this issue. A webinar from Compliance4All, a leading provider of professional training for the areas of regulatory compliance, which is being organized on June 25, will offer thorough and complete insights into the OSHA VPP program.

At this webinar, Deidre Tate, a Certified John Maxwell Trainer, Speaker and Business Coach, will be the speaker. Please visit to register for this webinar

Deidre will introduce the OSHA VPP program to the participants and offer a comprehensive overview of this program. The webinar will give easy to use tools and takeaways to develop a comprehensive strategy to implement the VPP program within an organization. Participants will walk away with an understanding of the best practices in implementing the OSHA VPP program.

Participants will enjoy the benefits of the following takeaways at this session:

  • Define the key elements and sub elements of the OSHA VPP program
  • Learn how to get a baseline of the safety culture within your facility
  • Get knowledge of the best practices on how to engage employees and senior management in the safety process for VPP site implementation

The highlight of this session is a comprehensive question and answer session in relation to OSHA VPP site implementation, following which participants will be able to fully comprehend the benefits of establishing a VPP mentor for VPP site implementation, get an understanding of how to work with OSHA to achieve VPP site implementation success, define how to properly fill out and submit the OSHA VPP application, understand best practices and takeaways in VPP site implementation, and get answers to specific questions or concerns as it relates to OSHA VPP site implementation at their facility.

Deidre will cover the following areas at this webinar:

  • Introduction and overview of the OSHA VPP program
  • Define the key elements and sub elements of the OSHA VPP program
  • Learn how to assess your safety culture within your facility as it pertains to the VPP program
  • Engaging employees in the safety process for VPP implementation
  • Industry best practices in implementing the OSHA VPP program
  • How to integrate the VPP safety management system with other management systems like (Responsible Care, SOCMA ChemStewards, ISO 14001 and/or ISO 45000)
  • Comprehensive question and answer session
  • About the speaker: Deidre brings an impressive track record of having implemented business process safety improvements, environmental engineering services, auditing and regulatory affairs for globally reputed companies such as Allied-Signal (Honeywell), AstraZeneca, Syngenta (Novartis), Johnson-Matthey, PGI, Materia and many others in the oil and gas industry.

Compliance4All is a professional trainings provider for the regulated industries. It offers professional trainings for regulatory compliance professionals and offers innovative strategic consulting and advice to a broad range of organizations. These services help them to be compliant with regulatory requirements..

Compliance4All has a panel of acclaimed Experts whose professional trainings help regulatory professionals and organizations in a number of ways and take them to their goal of meeting regulatory requirements. Compliance4All offers path breaking professional training solutions to organizations that help them address pain areas and overcome the challenges and difficulties associated with meeting regulatory requirements.

A broad variety of organizations that work in various industries and activities that require regulatory compliance trainings benefits in major ways from Compliance4All’s professional trainings. These trainings are relevant, focused and cost effective, and are on matters that relate to the day-to-day work that regulatory professionals carry out.

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Compliance4All is a professional trainings provider for the regulated industries. It offers professional trainings for regulatory compliance professionals and offers innovative strategic consulting and advice to a broad range of organizations.

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