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OSHA Update

Joann NatarajanOSHA

Austin Area Office

• OSHA Staff: 2,200

• Workers: 130 million

• Worksites: 8 million

• Regional Offices: 10

• Local Area Offices: 90

• 4,383 worker fatalities in 2012 (last year of full data.)

• 90 deaths per week

• 13 deaths every day13 deaths every day

• Workplace fatalities reduced by over 65% since 1970

• Occupational injury and illness rates declined by 67%

• U.S. employment has doubled since 1970

Making a Difference

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FY 2007 – FY 2013Inspections Conducted

40000

50000

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10000

20000

30000

Data Source: OIS Insp. Summary Rpt. Dated 9/17/13

Fatality & Catastrophe Investigations

1000

1250

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250

500

750

Data Source: OIS Insp. Summary Rpt. Dated 9/17/13

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Program Inspection Mix

• 25% complaints

• 50-55% construction inspections

• 5-10% accident and fatality investigations5 10% accident and fatality investigations

• 20% programmed inspections

Construction’s Top Four Hazards

• Falls – 279 out of 806 total deaths in construction in CY 2012 (34.6%)

• Struck by Object – 79 (9.8%)

• Electrocutions – 66 (8.1%)

• Caught-in/between – 13 (1.6%)

Top 10 Most Cited Standards

1. Fall Protection

2. Hazard Communication

3. Scaffolding

4. Respiratory Protection

5 El t i l Wi i

1. Powered Industrial Trucks

2. Ladders

3. Lockout/Tagout

4. Electrical, General Requirements

5. Electrical, Wiring Methods

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5. Machine Guarding

Data Source: OIS Frequently Cited Stnds. Rpt. Dated 9/17/13

Top 10

1. Fall Protection 2. Hazard Communication

Top 10

3. Scaffolds 4. Respiratory Protection

Top 10

5. Electrical 6. Powered Industrial Trucks

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Top 10

7. Ladders 8. Lock out/Tag out

Top 10

9. Electrical general requirements 10. Machine Guarding

Standards in Pre-Rule Stage

• Combustible Dust

• Infectious Diseases in Healthcare

• Injury and Illness Prevention Program

• Reinforced Concrete in Construction & Preventing Backover Injuries and Fatalities

• Review / Lookback OSHA Chemical Standards

Permissible Exposure Limits

• OSHA issued annotated tables of exposure limits that lists the recommended limits from NIOSH, Cal/OSHA, and ACGIH TLV’s

• OSHA seeks to provide employers workersOSHA seeks to provide employers, workers with a list of alternate occupational exposure limits that may serve to better protect workers

Proposed Rules

• Occupational Exposure to Beryllium

• Bloodborne Pathogens-(Lookback review)

• Occupational Exposure to Crystalline Silica

Rationale for Silica Rule

• Current Permissible Exposure Limits (PELs) are formulas that many find hard to understand

• Construction/shipyard PELs are obsolete particle count limitsp

• General industry formula PEL is about equal to 100 µg/m3; construction/shipyard formulas are about 250 µg/m3

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Most Important Reason for the Proposed Silica Rule

• Current PELs do not adequately protect workers

• Extensive epidemiologic evidence that lung cancer and silicosis occur at exposure levelscancer and silicosis occur at exposure levels below 100 µg/m3

Proposed Silica Rule

• Establishes new PEL of 50 μg/m3, AL of 25 μg/m3

• Includes provisions for:

• Measuring worker exposures to silica;

Limiting access to areas where workers could be• Limiting access to areas where workers could be exposed above the PEL;

• Use of dust controls;

• Use of respirators when necessary;

• Medical exams for highly exposed workers;

• Worker training; and

• Recordkeeping.

Final Rules

• Confined Spaces in Construction

• Electric Power Transmission and Distribution; Electrical Protective Equipment: Issued April 2014

• Walking Working Surfaces and Personal FallWalking Working Surfaces and Personal Fall Protection Systems (Slips, Trips, and Fall Prevention)

Hazard Communication 2012 (GHS)

• By December 1, 2013, employee training was required on label information and SDS format

• Training guide & fact sheets at:Training guide & fact sheets at:

https://www.osha.gov/dsg/hazcom

National Emphasis Programs

• Nursing and Residential Care Facilities (April 5, 2012)

• Chemical Facilities (November 29, 2011)

• Primary Metals (June 2, 2011)

• Shipbreaking (November 4, 2010)Shipbreaking (November 4, 2010)

• Hexavalent Chromium (February 23, 2010)

• Food Flavorings – Diacetyl (October 30, 2009)

National Emphasis Programs

• Lead (August 14, 2008)

• Combustible Dust (Reissued March 11, 2008)

• Crystalline Silica (January 24, 2008)

• Amputations (October 27, 2006)

• Trenching (September 9, 1985)

• Isocyanates (June 20, 2013)

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Crane Operator Certification

• OSHA extended the time for crane operators to become certified until Nov. 10, 2017

• OSHA is extending the compliance date so that the qualification/certification requirements do not take effect d i t ti l l ki di ti t thduring potential rulemaking or cause disruption to the construction industry

Ergonomics

OSHA’s current ergonomics enforcement

• OSHA continues to enforce ergonomics in all industries utilizing the general duty clause.

Overall (2001 – present) ergonomic inspection data:

• F d l OSHA h i d thi t t 5( )(1)• Federal OSHA has issued thirty-two 5(a)(1) citations to 26 companies, plus two Notices of Unsafe or Unhealthful Working Conditions (Federal Agency equivalent)

• Approximately 945 Ergonomic Hazard Alert Letters to employers (including USPS)

Temporary Workers Initiative

• Temporary worker: Staffing agencies and host employers have joint responsibility to protect temporary workers.

• OSHA 3735 publication:

www.osha.gov/Publications/OSHA3735.pdf

• Host employers must treat temporary workers like any other workers in terms of training and safety and health protections.

• Recordkeeping bulletin:

www.osha.gov/temp_workers/OSHA_TWI_Bulletin.pdf

Chemical Facility Safety and Security

• Executive Order 13650 signed on August 1, 2013

• Establishes a multi-agency working group

• Requires improving state and local response coordination

• Establishes a regional pilot program for sharing and testing best practices

• Enhances inter-agency information sharing

• Requires policy and regulation modernization

• Establishes stakeholder involvement sharing best practices

Other Worker Protection Efforts

• Workplace Violence

• Falls

• Heat Stress

• Whistleblower ProtectionWhistleblower Protection

New Publication Products

• Recordkeeping Q & A Search

www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/faq_search/

• Prevention of Musculoskeletal Injuries in Poultry Processing:g

www.osha.gov/Publications/OSHA3213.pdf

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New Publications • Safe Patient Handling:

www.osha.gov/Publications/OSHA3708.pdf

• Hazard identification training tool:

www.osha.gov/hazfinder/

• New Products Page:• New Products Page:

www.osha.gov/dcsp/compliance_assistance/new_ca_products.html#cards

Proposed Recordkeeping Changes

• Would replace the OSHA Data Initiative sent to 80,000 employers nationwide with an on-line submittal system

• Applies to employers with 20 or more workers

• Submitted data would be available on-line to the public (except for injured worker’s name & personal information)

Proposed Recordkeeping Changes

• Employers with 250 employees or more would submit data quarterly

• Proposed rule would only apply to employers that currently are required to maintain the OSHA 300, or are notified to keep the OSHA 300 for a particular yearnotified to keep the OSHA 300 for a particular year.

• OSHA would provide a secure website to submit data

Proposed Recordkeeping Changes

• Employers would be required to report all amputations and all in-patient hospitalizations of one or more employees

• Would update the list of NAICS codes required to maintain the OSHA 300maintain the OSHA 300

Questions

Natarajan.joann@dol.gov

(512) 374-0271 x 232