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OSHA UpdateJanuary 2013
Keven Lee YarbroughOccupational Safety and Health
AdministrationAssistant Area Director
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LeadershipLeadership
– Assistant Secretary (OSHA) David Michaels
– Deputy Assistant Secretary (OSHA)
Jordan Barab– Deputy Assistant Secretary
(OSHA) Richard Fairfax
– Chief of Staff (OSHA) Deborah Berkowitz
Acting Secretary of Labor – Seth Harris
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LeadershipLeadership
• Lot of change coming to OSHA
• Majority of senior leadership are
eligible to retire
• Cindy Coe – RA in Atlanta retires this
Friday
• OSHA Regional Consolidations
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• OSHA Staff: 2,305
(2012)
• Workers: 130 million
• Worksites: 8 million
• Regional Offices: 10
• Local Area Offices: 90
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• 4,609 worker fatalities in 2011
• 90 deaths per week
• 13 deaths every day
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Making a Difference
• In four decades since OSHA:
– Workplace fatalities reduced by over 65%
– Occupational injury and illness rates declined by
67%
– U.S. employment has doubled
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Increased State Plan Oversight
• 27 Plans
• Consistency with Federal Actions
• Enhanced Evaluations
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Inspections Conducted
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Programmed vs Unprogrammed%
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Fatality Inspections
1,043936
797 804 820768
0
250
500
750
1,000
1,250
FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11 FY12
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% Complaint Inspections
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% Construction Inspections
59% 60% 61% 60% 56% 55%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11 FY12
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Total Violations Issued
88,846 87,210 87,66396,742
85,51378,727
0
20,000
40,000
60,000
80,000
100,000
120,000
FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11 FY12
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Percent Serious
76% 77% 77% 77% 73% 73%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11 FY12
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Percent SWR
79% 81% 81% 82% 78% 77%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11 FY12
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% Not Incompliance Inspections w/ only Other Than-Serious Violations Cited (OIS
Data Only)
11% 10% 10% 10% 11% 12%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11 FY12
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Average Current Penalty Per Serious Violation
$918 $998 $970 $1,053
$2,133 $2,153
$0
$500
$1,000
$1,500
$2,000
$2,500
FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11 FY12
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Significant Cases
107121 120
164
215 219
0
50
100
150
200
250
FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11* FY12*
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% Inspections With Violations Contested
7% 7% 7% 8% 11% 11%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11 FY12
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FY 2007 – FY 2012 – % Inspections
Incompliance
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Top 10 Most Cited Standards (GI & Const.)
1. Fall Protection
2. Hazard
Communication
3. Scaffolding
4. Respiratory
Protection
5. Electrical, Wiring
Methods
6. Powered
Industrial Trucks
7. Lockout/Tagout
8. Ladders
9. Electrical, General
Requirements
10.Machine Guarding
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Construction only
1. Fall Protection
2. Scaffolding
3. Ladders
4. Fall Protection,
Training
Requirements
5. Hazard
Communication
6. Head Protection
6. Eye & Face Protection
6. Aerial Lifts
6. Electrical, Wiring Methods
6. Specific Excavation Requirements
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Standards in Pre-Rule Stage
• Combustible Dust
• Infectious Diseases
• Injury and Illness Prevention Program
• Reinforced Concrete in Construction and
Preventing Backover Injuries and Fatalities
• Review/Lookback of OSHA Chemical Review/Lookback of OSHA Chemical
StandardsStandards
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Proposed Rules
• Occupational Exposure to Crystalline
Silica
• Occupational Exposure to Beryllium
• Bloodborne Pathogens
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Final Rules
• Confined Spaces in Construction
• Electric Power Transmission and
Distribution; Electrical Protective Equipment
• Walking Working Surfaces and Personal Fall
Protection Systems (Slips, Trips, and Fall
Prevention)
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FY 2013
• 42,000 Inspection Goal
– Hurricane Sandy efforts may cause
reduction
• Other OSHA Performance Goals
remain the same
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NEPs • Nursing and Residential Care Facilities (April
5, 2012)
• Chemical Facilities (November 29, 2011)
• Primary Metals (June 2, 2011)
• Shipbreaking (November 4, 2010)
• Hexavalent Chromium (February 23, 2010)
• Food Flavorings – Diacetyl (October 30, 2009)
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NEPs
• Lead (August 14, 2008)
• Combustible Dust (Reissued March 11, 2008)
• Crystalline Silica (January 24, 2008)
• Amputations (October 27, 2006)
• Trenching (September 9, 1985)
• Isocyanates (Under Development )
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Oil & Gas Initiative
• Developed an OSHA Upstream Oil and Gas Safety Workgroup – Addresses the increasing numbers of fatalities and
injuries– DEP is leading a staff experienced in oil and gas
operations• Includes State Plan and Consultation program
representatives• Examine relevant data • Focus on compliance assistance resources• Reach out to local industry associations
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Ergo• OSHA’s current ergonomics enforcement
• OSHA continues to enforce ergonomics in all industries
utilizing the general duty clause.
• 200-300 inspections coded as ergo per year (2009-2012)
• Overall (2001 – Oct. 22, 2012) ergonomic inspection
data:
• Federal OSHA has issued twenty-seven 5(a)(1) citations to
22 companies, plus two Notices of Unsafe or Unhealthful
Working Conditions (Federal Agency equivalent)
• Approximately 873 EHALs to employers (including USPS)
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SVEP
SVEP Eligibility Criteria:
o SVEP-Fatality: Fatality/catastrophe + 1 or more willful/
repeat/ failure-to-abate violation (WRFTA) – thru 10/31/12 – 68
cases
o SVEP-HEH: ≥2 high-gravity WRFTA related to a High-
Emphasis Hazard – 201 cases
o SVEP-PSM: ≥3 high-gravity WRFTA related to PSM standard –
3 cases
o SVEP-Egregious: any egregious case – 29 cases
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Other Worker Protection Efforts
• Workplace Violence
• Falls
• Heat Stress
• Whistleblower Protection
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