NM Occupational Health & Safety Bureau

New Mexico OSHA has established several strategic partnerships with groups of employers and employees. These partnerships are designed to encourage, assist, and recognize efforts to eliminate serious hazards and achieve a high degree of employee safety and health. Members of the partnership share resources to focus on common safety issues.

Members of a partnership who commit to making safety and health improvements may be deferred for up to six months from any programmed inspections.

The following partnerships have been established by New Mexico OSHA.

ABC CLAS - Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc. Construction Leaders Agreement for Safety has 13 members at three levels of participation working together to improve safety in the construction industry. Contact Howard Gentry for more information.

ACNM - The Associated Contractors of New Mexico has recently created a Heavy Highway Construction Safety Partnership. Howard Gentry is actively seeking members to join with the eight current members.

AGC CHASE - Associated General Contractors of America Construction Health and Safety Excellence has 28 members at three levels of participation committed to improving safety in the construction industry. Contact Don Rideout for more information. An addendum to the agreement was created in late 2011.

ASA SHIP - American Subcontractors Association of New Mexico has recently created a Safety and Health Initiative Partners Agreement dedicated to improving safety in the commercial construction industry. Eight members were awarded membership in 2010. Contact Howard Gentry for more information.

SOARS - Safety, Ownership, Awareness, Respect, and Success. The Mechanical Contractors Association of New Mexico Workers' Compensation Group Fund and New Mexico OSHA have established a cooperative partnership to foster, maintain, and improve the safety and health conditions for commercial construction workers and workplaces. There are currently 13 members. See Howard Gentry for more information.

This chart is an alphabetized listing of all companies in any partnership, showing which companies are in multiple partnerships.