Injury & Illness

In the June 22, 2011 Federal Register, OSHA  published a proposal to update Appendix A to Subpart B of its Injury and Illness Recording and Reporting regulations. Appendix A contains a list of industries that are partially exempt from maintaining records of occupational injuries and illnesses, generally due to their relatively low rates of occupational injury and illness.  The current list of industries is based on the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system.

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Personal Protective Technology (PPT) Program and National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory (NPPTL) will hold a stakeholder meeting on March 29, 2011, at the Hyatt Regency Pittsburgh Airport.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is undertaking a rulemaking effort directed toward requiring employers to establish injury and illness prevention programs (I2P2) to monitor and more effectively implement practices to mitigate workplace hazards, thereby reducing the incidence of employee injuries and illnesses. OSHA believes that widespread implementation of such programs will substantially improve overall workplace safety and health conditions.

More than 30 registered stakeholders gathered June 29 to discuss OSHA’s proposal to issue an injury and illness prevention program (I2P2) rule, the first of two such meetings to be held in the nation’s capital.

In a June 22, 2010 Federal Register Notice OSHA announced two additional stakeholder meetings to discuss  Injury and Illness Prevention Programs.  The two meetings will be held on July 20, 2010 in Washington DC and on August 3, 2010 in Sacramento, CA.  The deadlines to register are July 6 and July 20, 2010 respectively.

These two meetings are in addition to the June 3, 2010 East Brunswick, NJ meeting, the June 10, 2010 Dallas, TX meeting   and the June 29, 2010 Washington, DC meeting.

For more information please see the attached notice.

On January 28, OSHA announced that it would publish a proposed rule to revise its Occupational Injury and Illness Recording and Reporting regulation (29 CFR 1904) to restore a column to the OSHA 300 Log that employers would use to record work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSD). This proposed rule would require employers to place a check mark in the MSD column, instead of the column they currently mark, if a case is an MSD that meets the Recordkeeping regulation’s general recording requirements. The proposal appeared in the Federal Register on January 29, 2010 (see atta

The American Industrial Hygiene Association’s new Strategy to Demonstrate the Value of Industrial Hygiene (aka, the Value Strategy), developed by ORC Worldwide, uses an eight-step process to identify and quantify the financial and non-financial links between industrial hygiene investment and business value.

A presentation on the Value Strategy was the highlight of the Tuesday plenary session at this year’s American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exposition. More than 400 people at the June conference attended two follow-up presentations