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A notice published in the March 27 Federal Register announced that the Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health will meet in Washington, DC, on April 16–17, 2009. The meeting will be held in Rooms N–3437 A–C of the Frances Perkins Building, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20210.
The agenda topics for this meeting include:
On March 24, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health released its first WorkLife Newsletter. Included in the first issue (NIOSH plans to publish the newsletter twice per year) are the following topics:
Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis announced March 17 the withdrawal of an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) for occupational exposure to food flavorings containing diacetyl. The Labor Department said the action will facilitate OSHA's timely development of a standard to protect workers from bronchiolitis obliterans, a serious and potentially fatal lung disease associated with diacetyl exposure.
President Obama signed a $410 omnibus spending bill that includes more than $513 million for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Language in the bill states that the extra money for OSHA should be used to strengthen enforcement and increase the pace at which the agency sets new standards.
The first international conference focusing on the occupational aspects of road safety took place in Washington DC in February. The International Conference on Road Safety at Work brought together 220 delegates from 44 countries to discuss strategies to prevent road traffic injuries in the workplace. The meeting was organized by NIOSH and co-sponsored by the World Health Organization, International Labour Organization, National Safety Council, World Bank, and U.S. Department of State.
In a decision issued February 23, 2009, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) permissible exposure limit for hexavalent chromium of 5 micrograms per cubic meter (µg/m3) of air as an 8-hour time-weighted average. Public Citizen Health Research Group had brought the suit against OSHA, arguing that the standard was not sufficiently protective of people exposed to hexavalent chromium in the workplace and was not substantiated by the health effects data.
The 2009 International Conference on Fatigue Management in Transportation Operations: A Framework for Progress is being held at the Boston Marriott Long Wharf Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts from March 24-26, 2009.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is holding a technical conference March 2nd to discuss challenges of integrating large scale renewable energy projects into the electricity transmission grid. There will also be discussion of wholesale electricity markets as well as the impacts of increased renewable energy generation. FERC is expecting there to be an increase in wind generation but there are still issues with costs and reliability for grid and market operators.
OSHA will hold an informal public hearing on the proposed rule for cranes and derricks in construction (29 CFR part 1926, subpart CC), published in the October 9, 2008 edition of the Federal Register (73 FR 59714).
The public hearing will take place in Washington, DC, beginning at 10 a.m. on March 17 in the auditorium of the Frances Perkins Building, 200 Constitution Ave. NW. If necessary, the hearing will continue for additional days.
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