OSHA and EPA training

OSHA and EPA training - The intention of this interagency Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is to constitute and amend the working relationship between the Office of Enforcement of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) of the Department of Labor and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The goals of the federal agencies are to meliorate the compounded efforts of the state agencies to attain protection of the public, workers, and the environment at facilities subject to OSHA and EPA jurisdiction; to draw the general fields of responsibility of each federal agency; to cater guidelines for coordination of interface actions between the two agencies with the total training goal of distinguishing and minimizing environmental or workplace hazards.

This MOU constitutes a training operation and framework for presentment; coordination and consultation between OSHA and EPA to aid both agencies in distinguishing environmental and workplace health and safety troubles and to more effectively carry out enforcement of U.S. territories national workplace and environmental statutes.

It is designated to amend the data exchange relating to protection of the public health and environment, job-site safety and health thereby reducing the expected for workplace associated injury, death, and environmental contamination. It carries out OSHA's authority under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSH Act) and EPA's general and statute-specific authorities to embark into agreements with other state agencies to further the legislative aims of Congress and the President.

OSHA and EPA have the statutory obligation to assure the safety and health of the public and America's workforce through the well timed and efficient implementation of a measure of federal laws and applying regulations and training. In some areas, the obligations of the federal agencies are classify and distinct. In others, they're complementary. OSHA and EPA wish to work in collaboration to maximize the efforts of both state agencies to assure the efficient and effective protection of the public, workers, and the environment.