New Standards, Enforcement Working, OSHA Chief Says

BALTIMORE — OSHA chief Dr. David Michaels discussed several enforcement initiatives of his agency May 24 at the AIHce 2016 conference, including the new injury tracking regulation and the mandate to report amputations and hospitalizations of injured workers. During the first year the severe injury rule was in effect, OSHA received about 10,000 reports but did not inspect most of those workplaces, he said, choosing instead to call the employers and send them an accident investigation form. That has been very successful, he explained, and has brought some very severe cases to OSHA’s attention at the agency otherwise would not have know about.

Michaels also supported the idea of vacating some outdated PELs where the limit that is in place is actually allowing unsafe exposures, he said, citing n-hexane as an example. Its PEL is 500, which is clearly too high to be safe, he said.

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