Retired OSHA Professional?
Independent Safety Consultant?

OSHA is ready today to pre-qualify safety professionals to become OSHA Technical Assistance Specialists (OTAS). The job of an OTAS will be to hit the ground running on behalf of OSHA, in response to an emergency. When deployed to a work site by OSHA, an OTAS will be paid at a GS-12 step 5 rate.

Step One: Pre-Qualify Now. Apply Today!
Step Two: When There's a Disaster, Get Paid for Deployment

Please note: You must receive training before being eligible to be deployed.
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That’s why you and your employees need a hurricane protection plan. The Hurriplanner is a fast and simple way to list pre-storm actions and post-storm followup. To give the Hurriplanner a test, click here.

OSHA 510 and 511 Now Available Online

Can’t make it to the classroom? Now you, or anyone in your organization, can take your 510 Construction Industry or 511 General Industry course online, anytime you like. These courses fulfill the same requirements as the traditional classroom course and provide the OSHA Training Institute Education Center Completion Certificate and OSHA 30-Hour Completion Card.

The benefits of online training:

Log on and off as many times as you like
Take the course anytime 24/7
Take up to 6 months to complete the course
Works with dial-up or broadband

Ready to Register

Register for OSHA 510 Course - Construction

Register for OSHA 511 Course - General Industry

Charlene D. Vespi, MS.Ed., CWCP

Program Director

USF SafetyFlorida

Helping employers profit from a safer workplace.

Using Our Comprehensive Safety Management System

Our mission is to save lives and reduce workplace injuries and illnesses. Your mission is to protect your workforce and profit from your business. Together, we can help you profit from safety.

Workplace accidents are caused primarily because of human behavior. Worker behavior creates hazards as well as the injuries caused by hazards. While it’s easy to focus on the hazards, worker behavior is a management issue.

Our comprehensive safety management system helps you manage the worker behavior that eliminates both physical hazards and unsafe acts. We encourage you to invite us to be your on-site consultant for a day and give us an opportunity to work with your company. At no cost to you. We tour your worksite to identify physical hazards. But we do not limit our service to noting hazards and advising how to meet OSHA safety standards. We also help you develop a safety management system that educates employees to understand that their own behavior can be the worst hazard -- or their greatest protection. The American worker, motivated by safety, can compete with the best in our global economy. Safety, therefore, is at the heart of your profits.

Taking our consultation advice to heart can reduce the hazards and change the behaviors that cause accidents and injuries. This helps lower your costs for workers’ comp and increases your profit potential.

We look forward to hearing from you. Click here to request an on-site consultation.

Safety Management Tools for Small Businesses

Originally created by USF SafetyFlorida and now administered by USF SafetyFlorida at ConsultationConnection.com.

Click below to select and sample three Web-based safety management tools. Give them a test drive. If they work for you, use them to control operating costs and save time. Each site is secure to protect your data. View this walkthrough.

SafetyWriter enables you to “click” together a safety plan.
AccidentTracker helps you collect the data you need for documenting lost-time accidents.
RecordKeeper gives you a fill-in wizard to input data a single time to fill out the three OSHA-required recordable-accident reporting forms.

USF SafetyFlorida Salutes Florida's SHARP Companies

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Want to join these safety leaders and be exempt from OSHA inspections? Ask your USF SafetyFlorida consultant about SHARP, the OSHA Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program. OSHA encourages employers to operate exemplary safety and health management systems. To reward such employers, OSHA allows those who meet eligibility requirements to become exempt from OSHA inspections for a period of up to two years and then receive renewal exemptions for up to three additional years. To learn how you can qualify for SHARP, the OSHA inspection exemption, call 1-866-273-1105. Learn more.