Brief OSHA UPDATE for Safety Alliance for Excellence Tampa Charter Meeting on May 12, 2017 PRESENTED BY:Joan M. Spencer, Compliance Assistance Specialist-Tampa Area Office

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Brief OSHA UPDATE
for
Safety Alliance for Excellence
Tampa Charter Meeting
May 12, 2017
PRESENTED BY:
Joan M. Spencer
Compliance Assistance Specialist
Tampa Area Office 813-626-1177
spencer.joan@dol.gov

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58 Fatalities
31 Ft. Lauderdale Office
9 Jacksonville Office
18 Tampa Office
Burned 1
Caught in or between 2
drowning 5
Fall (from elevation) 20
Inhalation 3
Other 4
Shock 4
Struck-by 19

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Initiatives helping to not only
protect workers' lives, but also their
families, and their futures.
Emphasis programs
Temporary Workers
Significant cases
Rulemaking
Reporting requirements
Harwood Grantees focus mostly on
vulnerable workers

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Trenching
Lead, silica, and
Isocyanate exposures
Hexavalent chromium
PSM – Chemical processing
Combustible dust
Amputations
Shipbreaking
Primary Metals
Federal Agencies

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Overhead Powerlines
Falls
Landscaping
Noise
Lead
Silica
Fork lifts
Maritime Inspections
Sanitation and Clean-up operations
in “Food and Kindred Products”

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Lockout/Tagout 1910.147
Hazard Communication 1910.1200
Machine Guarding – General Requirements 1910.212
Respiratory Protection 1910.134
Powered Industrial Trucks 1910.178
Electrical – Wiring Methods 1910.305
Electrical – General Requirement 1910.303
Personal Protective Equipment – General 1910.132
Machine Guarding – Power Transmission Apparatus 1910.219
Abrasive wheel machinery 1910.215

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Fall Protection – Duty to Have Protection 1926.501
Scaffolds – General Requirement 1926.451
Ladders 1926.1053
Fall Protection – Training 1926.503
Eye and Face 1926.102
Hazard Communication 1910.1200
Head Protection 1926.100
General safety and health provisions 1926.20
Aerial Lifts 1926.453
Fall protection systems criteria 1926.502

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Since January 1, 2017
8 Florida Sites
7 in Construction
3 Roofing Companies
All 3 OSHA offices issued

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Prerule Stage
Bloodborne Pathogens
(Section 610 Review)
Prerule Stage Combustible Dust
Prerule Stage
Preventing Backover
Injuries and Fatalities
Proposed Rule Stage Infectious Diseases
Long-Term Actions
Injury and Illness
Prevention Program

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3/25/2016 – Respirable Silica
5/12/20016 - Improve Tracking of
Workplace Injuries and Illnesses
11/8/2016 - Walking-Working Surfaces
and Personal Protective Equipment
(Fall Protection Systems)
1/09/2017 - Occupational Exposure to
Beryllium
1/18/2017 - Penalties

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The Inflation Adjustment Act
Improvements Act of 2015 rescinds an
exemption that previously disallowed
inflationary adjustments for violations
of the OSH Act
Revises the method of calculating
inflation adjustments. The Prior
Inflation Adjustment Act required
adjustments to civil penalties to be
rounded significantly.

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Type of Violation New Maximum Penalty
Serious
Other-Than-Serious
Posting Requirements
$12,675 per violation
Failure to Abate
$12,675 per day beyond the
abatement date
Willful or Repeated $126,749 per violation
Department of Labor Federal Civil Penalties Inflation
Adjustment Act Annual Adjustments for 2017

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Two standards:
One for general industry and maritime
One for construction
Similar to other OSHA health standards and
ASTM consensus standards

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PEL = 50 µg/m3 as an 8-Hour TWA
Action Level = 25 µg/m3 as an 8-Hour
TWA

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Enforcement delayed until Sept 23,
2017.
Originally scheduled to begin June 23,
2017, delayed for additional guidance
due to the unique nature of the
requirements in the construction
standard.

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Delay in the effective date from March 21,
2017, to May 20, 2017.
The announcement follows a White House
memorandum, entitled "Regulatory Freeze
Pending Review," issued Jan. 20, 2017,
that directed the department to undertake
a review of any new or pending
regulations and temporarily postpone the
date that they would take effect.

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PEL of 0.2 μg/m3 averaged over 8
hours
STEL of 2.0 μg/m3 over a 15-
minute period.

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The Senate on March 23 joined the
House by voting to overturn a final rule
from OSHA that addresses employers’
“ongoing obligation” to make and
maintain accurate records of work-
related injury and illness data.

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Changes and new requirements
Fall protection flexibility
Updated scaffold requirements to
have employers comply with the
construction scaffold standards;
Phase-in of ladder safety systems
or personal fall arrest systems on fixed
ladders

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Old rule
1910.21 Definitions.
1910.22 General requirements.
1910.23 Guarding floor and wall
openings and holes.
1910.24 Fixed industrial stairs.
1910.25 Portable wood ladders.
1910.26 Portable metal ladders.
1910.27 Fixed ladders.
1910.28 Safety requirements for
scaffolding.
1910.29 Manually propelled
mobile ladder stands and
scaffolds. (towers).
1910.30 Other working
surfaces. requirements.
Final rule
1910.21 Scope, application, and
definitions.
1910.22 General requirements.
1910.23 Ladders.
1910.24 Step bolts and manhole
steps.
1910.25 Stairways.
1910.26 Dockboards (bridge
plates).
1910.27 Scaffolds (including
rope descent systems).
1910.28 Duty to have fall
protection.
1910.29 Fall protection systems
criteria and practices
1910.30 Training .

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Addition of :
1910.140 – Fall Protection System
Appendix C - Personal Fall Protection
Systems - non-mandatory
Appendix D – Test Method and
Procedures for Personal Fall Protection
Systems – non-mandatory

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Affordable Care Act (ACA), Section 1558
Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA)
Clean Air Act (CAA)
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA)
Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 (CFPA), Section 1057 of the Dodd-Frank
Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010
Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA)
Energy Reorganization Act (ERA)
FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), Section 402
Federal Railroad Safety Act (FRSA)
Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA)
International Safe Container Act (ISCA)
Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21)
National Transit Systems Security Act (NTSSA)
Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act), Section 11(c)
Pipeline Safety Improvement Act (PSIA)
Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)
Seaman's Protection Act (SPA), as amended by Section 611 of the Coast Guard
Authorization Act of 2010, P.L. 111-281
Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA)
Surface Transportation Assistance Act (STAA)
Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)
Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century (AIR21)

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Chicken or the Egg
Good place to start
Management Leadership
Employee Involvement
Hazard Identification
and Evaluation
Hazard Prevention and Control
Education and Training
Evaluation/Audit/Review and Improvement
Communication and Coordination for Host
Employers, Contractors, and Staffing Agencies

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Stand-down on May 22, 2017

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Week of June 12, 2017

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