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. Inspections October 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. Inspections October 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 Programs FY2017
Combustible Dust - OSHA Instruction CPL Hazardous Machinery - OSHA Instruction CPL Hexavalent Chromium - OSHA Instruction CPL Lead - OSHA Instruction CPL Primary Metal Industries - OSHA Instruction CPL

9. National Emphasis Programs FY2017
Process Safety Management - OSHA Instruction CPL Shipbreaking - OSHA Instruction CPL Silica - OSHA Instruction CPL Trenching & Excavation - OSHA Instruction CPL

10. Most Frequently Cited Standards All 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. $12,675 per day beyond the abatement date
New Penalty Levels
Adjusted Jan 17, 2017
Type of Violation
New Maximum*
Serious and
Other-Than-Serious
Posting Requirements   
$12,675 per violation
Willful or Repeated
$126,749 per violation
Failure to Abate
$12,675 per day beyond the abatement date
*Maximum penalties will be readjusted annually for inflation.

13. Respirable Crystalline Silica in 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 Silica in Construction §1926.1153
Goal of September 23, 2017 to issue Silica Directive
New compliance aids to help employers can be found at
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 Qualification
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)

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

23. OSHA Compliance Assistance
156,910 subscribers to QuickTakes newsletter
900,010 students taught at OSHA Outreach Training Program
52,433 students 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.
Outreach Activities by Key Initiatives
Initiative
FY 2016
FY (through Q2)
Small Business
1782
1,035
Safety & Health Programs
882
825
Fall Prevention
1603
798
Silica
599
Temporary Workers
993
486
Latino
985
392
Heat
947
344
Youth
568
278
Healthcare
351
128
Oil and Gas
275
120

25. OSHA Outreach Activities Impact Report
Through OSHA compliance assistance staff, OSHA reaches millions of people per year.
FY Q2 – 1.7 Million was reached

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