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OSHA National Update - Ensuring Worker Safety and Health During Hurricane Harvey Recovery

Learn about OSHA's efforts in ensuring worker safety and health during Hurricane Harvey recovery, including enforcement activities, regulatory updates, and outreach initiatives.

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OSHA National Update - Ensuring Worker Safety and Health During Hurricane Harvey Recovery

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  1. OSHA NATIONAL UPDATE Kelly C. Knighton, CSP Regional Administrator 2017 Annual North Texas OSHAMSHA Regulatory Update Seminar

  2. Agenda • Hurricane Harvey • Enforcement • Regulatory Activities • Outreach

  3. Hurricane Harvey • OSHA has been working closely with FEMA, local, state, and other federal partners to ensure worker safety and health is a priority during recovery operations. • Includes providing technical support, and distributing safety and health publications and guidance documents related to hurricane and flood clean-up and recovery operations.

  4. Hurricane Harvey • OSHA has a 25-day FEMA mission assignment to: • Develop the Health and Safety Plan (HASP); • Provide onsite technical assistance during the establishment of 5-7 base camps; and, • Chair the Joint Federal Agency Safety and Health Committee.

  5. Hurricane Harvey • OSHA has conducted more than: • 630 safety and health interventions; • 521 outreach activities assisting employers and workers in identifying unsafe or potentially unsafe working conditions. • Response teams reached more than 9,058 workers; and, removed 2127 workers from hazards.

  6. InspectionsOctober 1, 2016 – September 10, 2017 All Inspections: 30,494 Safety: 25,009 Health: 5,485 No. of Fatalities Investigated: 748 *37 Less than this Time Last Fiscal Year. Total No. of Violations Issued: 47,432 Average Current Serious Penalty Amount: $3,821

  7. InspectionsOctober 1, 2016 – September 10, 2017 % Construction: 51.9% % General Industry: 48.1% % Programmed: 44.6% % Un-Programmed: 55.4% % Follow-up: 3.2%

  8. National Emphasis ProgramsFY2017 Combustible Dust - OSHA Instruction CPL 03-00-008 Hazardous Machinery - OSHA Instruction CPL 03-00-019 Hexavalent Chromium - OSHA Instruction CPL 02-02-076 Lead - OSHA Instruction CPL 03-00-009 Primary Metal Industries - OSHA Instruction CPL 03-00-018

  9. National Emphasis ProgramsFY2017 Process Safety Management - OSHA Instruction CPL 03-00-021 Shipbreaking- OSHA Instruction CPL 03-00-020 Silica - OSHA Instruction CPL 03-00-007 Trenching & Excavation - OSHA Instruction CPL 02-00-069

  10. Most Frequently Cited StandardsAll Industries 1. Fall Protection 2. Hazard Communication 3. Scaffolding 4. Lockout/Tagout 5. Respiratory Protection 6. Ladders 7. Machine Guarding 8. Powered Industrial Trucks 9. Electrical - Wiring 10. Fall Protection Training

  11. OSHA Penalty Adjustment • First time OSHA’s penalties were adjusted since 1990 • OSHA will adjust its civil monetary penalties annually to account for inflation

  12. New Penalty Levels Adjusted Jan 17, 2017 *Maximum penalties will be readjusted annually for inflation.

  13. Respirable Crystalline Silicain Construction§1926.1153 • Enforceable on September 23, 2017 • New 8-Time-Weighted-Average (TWA) PEL of 50 µg/m3 • New an action level (AL) of 25 µg/m3

  14. Respirable Crystalline Silicain Construction§1926.1153 • Goal of September 23, 2017 to issue Silica Directive • New compliance aids to help employers can be found at www.osha.gov/silica • Developing fact sheets for each of the Table 1 tasks and video for some of the more common Table 1 tasks.

  15. Illness and Injury Reporting • Injury Tracking Application (ITA) was launched on August 1, 2017 • >4,200 accounts established in the first week • Expecting approximately 400,000 accounts • Need help? – Submit questions through the Help Request Form. The link appears at the bottom of each page in ITA

  16. Illness and Injury Reporting • Proposed rule issued extending date for submitting 2016 Form 300A data from July 1, 2017 to December 1, 2017 • Outreach materials available ITA landing page • Includes: FAQs, ITA job aids, Instructions for using Comma Separated Value (CSV) and Application Programming Interface (API) Token options for uploading existing electronic data

  17. Beryllium Standard • Effective May 20, 2017, with initial compliance date of March 12, 2018 • Proposed rule issued revoking the ancillary provisions (e.g., housekeeping, PPE) for the construction and shipyard sectors, while retaining new PEL and STEL

  18. Beryllium Standard • General industry provisions are not affected by proposal • Comments were due August 28, 2017 • Public hearing, if requested. • OSHA will not be enforcing construction and shipyard provisions until final rule is issued.

  19. Crane Operator Requirements Extension Maintains current competency requirements Effective date extended to November 10, 2018 Crane Operator Competency (NPRM) Maintains employer obligation to ensure operator competency Provides operator competency evaluation criteria Clarifies training requirements Revises certification requirements (not by capacity) Crane Operator Qualification

  20. National Alliances • American Chemistry Council • Protect workers from exposure to hazardous chemicals. • Raise awareness working with diisocyantes • Safe work practices in the polyurethane industry • National Grain and Feed Association • Prevent exposure to hazards associated with grain bin entry, machine guarding, resp. protection, falls, heat exposure, combustible dust, struck-by, lockout/tagout

  21. OSHA Working with Oil & Gas Industry • Tank Gauging Hazard Alert • Hot Work Hazard Alert • Safety Stand-Downs • Updating OSHA’s Oil and Gas eTool

  22. OSHA ComplianceAssistance • 21 Million visitors annually to OSHA’s website • 253,149 responses to OSHA 1-800 calls for help • 21,775Spanish-speaking callers helped • 25,924 e-mail requests for assistance answered • 113,428 educational materials distributed in print • 27,927visits to small & medium-sized businesses through OSHA’s free On-Site Consultation Program 2016 Data

  23. OSHA ComplianceAssistance • 156,910subscribers to QuickTakes newsletter • 900,010 students taught at OSHA Outreach Training Program • 52,433students taught at OSHA Training Institute Education Centers 2016 Data

  24. OSHA Outreach Activities Impact Report Outreach activities include training, presentations, meetings, conferences, and more. OSHA’s field compliance assistance staff conduct an average of over 5,000 outreach activities per year.

  25. OSHA Outreach Activities Impact Report Through OSHA compliance assistance staff, OSHA reaches millions of people per year.

  26. Digital Media Follow us on Twitter and visit us on Facebook Thanks for following and retweeting! Continue following @OSHA_DOL on Twitter and visiting the DOL Facebook page . OSHA provides news and commentary on

  27. Questions?

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