OSHA targets iron and steel foundries, concrete pipe manufacturers, others for recordkeeping crackdown
OSHA has announced the list of industries that will be targeted under its one-year program that will intensively ramp up recordkeeping enforcement.
The program concentrates on industries with traditionally high accident rates. Within those industries, companies that have reported low accident rates are most likely to be audited. OSHA says that to qualify for inspection under the program, a workplace must be in a selected industry, have 40 or more employees, and show a Days Away, Restricted or Transferred (DART) rate of 4.2 or below based on 2007 OSHA 300 data.
Targeted industries include steel and iron foundries, concrete pipe manufacturers, soft drink manufacturers and automotive seat and interior trim manufacturers. A complete list of those industries, and more detail about the program is contained in a report from Sherman and Howard.
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Hey Jim,
You wouldn’t BELIEVE how many companies out there have gas detection equipment that they don’t keep logs on. A lot of our business right now involves contractors doing confined space work for steel companies. They might calibrate their monitors once in a while, but they certainly don’t do it every 30 days, bumping daily is out of the question, and the record keeping is a joke. THANK YOU for emphasizing the record keeping side of this, as it cannot be pushed enough.
If you don’t have records, you have a violation.
James