1. Safety Alliance for Excellence
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

7. Florida FY 17 Fatalities (to date)
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

8. Solution: Prevent Workplace Injuries And Illnesses
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

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

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

11. Most Frequently Cited Standards Manufacturing
Lockout/Tagout
Hazard Communication
Machine Guarding – General Requirements
Respiratory Protection
Powered Industrial Trucks
Electrical – Wiring Methods
Electrical – General Requirement
Personal Protective Equipment – General
Machine Guarding – Power Transmission Apparatus
Abrasive wheel machinery

12. Most Frequently Cited Standards Construction
Fall Protection – Duty to Have Protection
Scaffolds – General Requirement
Ladders
Fall Protection – Training
Eye and Face
Hazard Communication
Head Protection
General safety and health provisions
Aerial Lifts
Fall protection systems criteria

13. Enforcement Cases with Initial Penalties Above $40,000
Since January 1, 2017
8 Florida Sites
7 in Construction
3 Roofing Companies
All 3 OSHA offices issued

14. Fall 2016 Unified Agenda Prerule Stage
Bloodborne Pathogens (Section 610 Review)
Combustible Dust
Preventing Backover Injuries and Fatalities
Proposed Rule Stage
Infectious Diseases
Long-Term Actions
Injury and Illness Prevention Program

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

16. Penalties
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.

17. Penalties
Department of Labor Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Annual Adjustments for 2017
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

18. Respirable Crystalline Silica Rules
Two standards:
One for general industry and maritime
One for construction
Similar to other OSHA health standards and ASTM consensus standards

19. Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL)
PEL = 50 µg/m3 as an 8-Hour TWA
Action Level = 25 µg/m3 as an 8-Hour TWA

20. Silica Standard 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.

21. Beryllium
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.

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

23. Recordkeeping
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.

24. Walking - Working Surfaces
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

25. Subpart D Old rule Final rule 1910.21 Definitions.
General requirements.
Guarding floor and wall openings and holes.
Fixed industrial stairs.
Portable wood ladders.
Portable metal ladders.
Fixed ladders.
Safety requirements for scaffolding.
Manually propelled mobile ladder stands and scaffolds. (towers).
Other working surfaces. requirements.
Final rule
Scope, application, and definitions.
General requirements.
Ladders.
Step bolts and manhole steps.
Stairways.
Dockboards (bridge plates).
Scaffolds (including rope descent systems).
Duty to have fall protection.
Fall protection systems criteria and practices
Training .
Existing subpart D does not contain a scope and application section for the entire subpart, but it does contain several separate "application" requirements in various sections of subpart D.
Some of the same terms will be used, but will be the defined differently.

26. Subpart I - PPE 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

27. OSHA orders Amtrak to reinstate, pay $892K to employee discharged in violation of Federal Railroad Safety Act

28. 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
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)

29. Safety and Health Management Systems
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

30. Fall Stand-down 2017

31. Heat Stress
Stand-down on May 22, 2017

32. Week of June 12, 2017

33. www.osha.gov 1-800-321-OSHA (6742) Thank You for Your Time
The newly designed poster informs workers of their right to request an OSHA inspection of their workplaces, receive information and training on job hazards, report a work-related injury or illness, and raise safety and health concerns with their employer or OSHA without being retaliated against.