The mission of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is to save lives, prevent injuries and protect the health of America's workers. To accomplish this, federal and state governments must work in partnership with the more than 100 million working men and women and their six and a half million employers who are covered by the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.

OSHA and its state partners have approximately 2100 inspectors, plus complaint discrimination investigators, engineers, physicians, educators, standards writers, and other technical and support personnel spread over more than 200 offices throughout the country. This staff establishes protective standards, enforces those standards, and reaches out to employers and employees through technical assistance and consultation programs.

Nearly every working man and woman in the nation comes under OSHA's jurisdiction (with some exceptions such as miners, transportation workers, many public employees, and the self-employed). Other users and recipients of OSHA services include: occupational safety and health professionals, the academic community, lawyers, journalists

S On June 10, OSHA compliance officers from the El Paso District Office helped avert potential tragedy at two communication towers in the area. Taylor Communications dispatched Elias Casillas and Jessica Martinez to the site of a tower under construction. Two employers were exposed to falls of 80 feet due to lack of proper fall protection. After meeting with the employer, both workers were voluntarily removed until a fall protection system was installed. Later that same day, two federal agency employees dispatched Casillas and Martinez to a 100-foot tower in El Paso undergoing routine service and maintenance. Both employees had two lanyards apiece, but no fall protection. The employees were asked by the compliance officers to descend from the tower until adequate fall protection could be installed. Mario Solano, Assistant Area Director for the El Paso office provided technical assistance on tower safety to the agency and helped them develop a better safety program for tower maintenance. (Photos of both incidents are below).

ACCSH was recently rechartered on October 8, 1999, in full compliance with procedures mandated by the General Services Administration (GSA) at Title 41, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 101-6 (41 CFR 101-6), as amended December 2, 1987.

We based OSHA's new standards for public service on what we learned from the survey, from meetings with employee and employer groups, and from focus group discussions with workers from many plants and industries across the country.

The Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health (ACCSH) is a continuing advisory body established under section 107 of the Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act (40 U.S.C. 333, commonly known as the Construction Safety Act) to advise the Assistant Secretary for Occ

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