OSHA Update

PRESENTED BY:

Dale Varney

Compliance Assistance Specialist

Springfield Area Office

What is OSHA’s Top Priority?

To Reduce

Injuries, Illnesses, and Deaths on the job in America

•Over 4,800 Americans died

from workplace injuries and

illnesses last year

•Over 3.5 million non-fatal

workplace injuries and

illnesses are reported

•On average, 13 workers

die every day from job

injuries

Who Bears The Costs of Injury and Illnesses?

• 50% - workers

• 21% - workers compensation

• 13% - private health insurance

• 11% - federal government

• 5% - state and local governments

TOP 10 Most Cited Violations 2014

Description

1) Fall Protection 1926.501

2) Scaffolding 1926.451

3) Hazard Communication 1910.1200

4) Ladders 1926.1053

5) Lockout / Tagout 1910.147

6) Machine Guarding 1910.212

7) Powered Industrial Trucks 1910.178

8) Electrical Wiring Methods 1910.305

9) Respiratory Protection 1910.134

10) Electrical-General Requirements 1910.303

Total Inspections FY end 2014/2015 Comparison

• 2015 Massachusetts Inspections

1,480

• Braintree 598

• 52% construction

• Andover 516

• 68% construction

• Springfield 366

• 47% construction

• 2014 Massachusetts Inspections

1,534

– Braintree 711

• 51% construction

– Andover 542

• 66% construction

– Springfield 393

• 57% construction

National Indicators • 75% Serious violations

• 25% In Compliance –Construction

• 2.1 violations per inspection (NIC)

• 52% Construction Inspections

• Average penalty per serious violation- $2400

Other than Serious violations $7,000 $12,471 Serious violations $7,000 $12,741 Willful violations $70,000 $126,000 Repeat violations $70,000 $126,000

Current August 2016

OSHA Stats

• 100,000,000 : Number of workers covered by OSHA standards

• 8,000,000: Number of workplaces covered by OSHA

• 2258: OSHA entire staff in fiscal 2014

• 1,539: Field Enforcement Staff

• $571,000,000: OSHA Budget request for 2014

• 40,961: Inspections by OSHA in 2012

Things to think about

• INCREASED OSHA PENALTIES

• INCREASED USE OF THE GENERAL DUTY CLAUSE

• OSHA TO REDUCE RELIANCE ON PERMISSIBLE EXPOSURE LIMITS

• MULTI-EMPLOYER WORKSITE DOCTRINE

• FINAL IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW GLOBALLY HARMONIZED SYSTEM (GHS) STANDARDS

• TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES

• NEW SILICA RULE BECAME EFFECTIVE IN APRIL 2016

• OSHA’S USE OF THE RAPID RESPONSE FORM

Major Causes for Fatalities for 2014

# Cause Percentage

15 Falls 34%

9 Struck/Crushed 20%

7 Forklifts / Aerial Lifts / Earth Moving

Equipment

15%

3 Caught in 7%

3 Electrocution 7%

2 Other 5%

2 CO / Asphyxiated 5%

2 Tree Cutting 5%

1 Burns 2%

National Emphasis Programs

• Trenching and Excavation

• Combustible Dust

• Hazardous Machinery (amputations)

• Hexavalent Chromium

• Isocynates

• Lead

• Primary Metals

• Process Safety Management

• Shipbreaking

• Silica

Local Emphasis Programs

• Noise in the Workplace

• Fall Hazards

• Mast Climbing Work Platforms

• Crane Operation in Construction

• Powered Industrial Trucks

• Residential Construction

• Crystalline Silica Exposure in Construction

• Scrap, Waste and Refuse Industries

Employers are Required to:

• Keep records of Injuries and Illnesses and

• Report each worker Death within 8 HOURS of

the accident (1-800-321-OSHA)

• Report each incident that Hospitalizes 1 or more

workers within 24 HOURS

• Report each incident that results in an

Amputation or the Loss of an Eye Within 24 HOURS

Severe Injury Reporting Program

As of January 1, 2015:

All employers are required to notify OSHA when an employee is killed on the job or suffers a work-related hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye.

A fatality must be reported within 8 hours.

An in-patient hospitalization, amputation, or eye loss must be reported within 24 hours.

OSHA instituted the new reporting program to:

Better target the Agency’s compliance assistance and enforcement efforts in places where workers are at greatest risk

Engage more high-hazard employers in identifying and eliminating serious hazards

Severe Injury Reporting

RAPID RESPONSE INVESTIGATION (RRI)

Collaborative, problem-solving approach

Invites an employer and an OSHA Area Office expert to work together toward shared goal:

Find and fix hazards, and improve overall safety

Severe Injury Reporting

YEAR ONE ANALYSIS

10,388 severe injuries reported, including

2,644 amputations and 7,636 hospitalizations

This is an average of 30 worker injuries every day of the year

Most reported injuries (62%) were addressed by employer investigation, not OSHA inspection

Severe Injury Reporting:

YEAR ONE FINDINGS

Reporting leads to productive interactions with OSHA

Most employers are eager to cooperate with OSHA to prevent similar or worse worker injuries

Many employers went above and beyond OSHA requirements

Some employers continued to put workers at risk and conceal hazards

Severe Injury Reporting:

YEAR ONE LESSONS

Four (4) Main Hazards

• FALL FROM

• CRUSHED BY/CAUGHT IN BETWEEN

• STRUCK BY

• ELECTROCUTED

Man identified in construction site death Carteret County News-Times (Morehead City, N.C.) May 23, 2016

Nature's Path cited by OSHA for safety violations Lake Country Now (Hartland, Wis.) May 23, 2016

N.J. health officials say they have only some violence reports for Bergen Regional hospital NorthJersey.com May 24, 2016

Week ahead: OSHA rule on reporting workplace injuries under scrutiny The Hill May 23, 2016

Danger in the trenches: Excavation shortcuts cost lives EHS Today May 23, 2016

• In 2013 over 6,000 workers were injured in a fall at work in Massachusetts.

• Approximately 1,030 of these falls were to a lower level and resulted in half of these workers missing 16 days of work or more.

• Falls to a lower level resulted in over

12000 fractures in 2012

Splat Calculator

• 4 ft fall………… 11 mph……… .5 secs

• 10 ft fall………… 17 mph……… .8 secs

• 30 ft fall………… 30 mph……… 1.4 secs

• 200 ft fall………..70 mph……… 3.8 secs

• 1200 ft fall………110 mph…… 10.7 secs

Work(joules)=F(weight)x H (height of ladder) = F(earth)x S(stopping distance)

2013 – 12 Back-over Accidents · 4 - Motor Vehicle · 1 - Loader · 6 - Powered Industrial Truck · 1 - Aerial Lift 2014 – 3 Back-over Accidents · 2- Motor Vehicle · 1- Loader 2015 – 8 Back-over Accidents · 1 – Snow Plow · 2 - Motor Vehicle · 1 – Loader · 2 – Skid Steer · 2 – Powered Industrial Truck

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Electrical Safety Statistics

• Average of 4000 non-disabling and 3600 disabling electrical contact injuries annually in the United States

• Average of 5 people per week are electrocuted in the workplace.

• Over 2000 workers are sent to burn centers each year with electrical-related burn injuries

Electrical Safety Reality

• Workers are injured or killed everyday working on electrical systems

• Most injuries are a result of unsafe work practices

• Many workers do not understand electricity or know the OSHA/NEC electrical safety regulation requirements

• Many workers are NOT QUALIFIED to perform their assigned tasks!!!

Major Elements

• An effective occupational safety and health program will include the following six elements:

• Management commitment

• Employee involvement • Worksite analysis • Hazard prevention and control • Safety and health training

• Program evaluation and improvement

Hot Topics • Heat stress

• Powered Industrial Trucks

• Falls and walking working surfaces

• Workplace violence

• Amputation hazards

• Distracted driving

• Tree trimming

• Cranes

• PSM

• VPP Review

• Work zone safety

• Safe Electrical Work Practices

• Victim’s Family Rights

• Customer service

Safety and Health Value • Estimated nearly 200 billion in costs associated with

occupational injuries

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Do You Know How Much Accidents Are Really Costing?

• Accidents are more expensive than most people realize because of the hidden costs

• This iceberg visually demonstrates the relationship between direct and indirect costs of accidents

DIRECT

INDIRECT

Direct Costs • Direct costs - Usually reimbursed by insurance

– Medical treatment

– Physician

– Hospital

– Ambulance

– Physical therapy

– Indemnity (compensation payments to injured while away from work)

Indirect Costs

• Training and compensating replacement workers

• Spoiled product

• Cleaning time

• Repair of damaged property

• Investigation of accident

• Legal fees

• Schedule delays

• Added administrative time (filing reports)

• Lower morale

• Increased absenteeism

• Poorer customer relations

• Indirect costs aren’t as obvious initially, but

can add up. They include costs related to:

• Direct Costs------45,377 • Indirect Costs----49,914 • Total Cost $ 95,291 • Profit Margin- 5% • Total additional

Sales/Revenue needed to cover Cost of Accident---

$1,905,000

• Direct Costs------48,492 • Indirect Costs----53,341 • Total Cost $ 101,833 • Profit Margin- 5% • Sales/Revenue needed to

cover Indirect Cost of Accident---$1,066,824

• Total Sales/Revenue needed to cover accident

$2,036,659!!!

2013 2015

How much does a broken leg cost?

Hazard Assessment

Hazard Analysis (JHA’s JSA’s HAZOPS SOP’s)

Accident Investigations

Root Cause Analysis

Continuous Improvements

Near Misses

Recognition

Documentation

Safety Culture

Communication!!

Study: OSHA Inspections Reduce

Injuries with No Job Loss

Harvard & UC Berkeley researchers found:

• 9.4% drop in injury claims in the 4 years after inspection

• 26% average savings on workers’ compensation costs

• $355,000 average savings for an employer (small or

large) as a result of an OSHA inspection

There was no evidence that these improvements came at the expense

of employment, sales, credit ratings or firm survival.

SAY WHAT YOU DO……DO

WHAT YOU SAY!

Think Think Safety Think Safety

Think Safety

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