OSHA Officials Discuss the Agency’s Current Activities During Tech Session
From the Safety+Health magazine, published by the National Safety Council.
Increases of various workplace hazards have spurred OSHA to update several National Emphasis Programs in recent years, the latest being its trenching and excavation program in October 2018.
Several other NEPs will be updated and rereleased, said Patrick Kapust, deputy director of OSHA’s Directorate of Enforcement Programs, during Wednesday’s “OSHA Current Activities Update” Technical Session at the National Safety Council 2019 Congress & Expo.
“The agency targets a specific industry or hazards (with NEPs),” Kapust said. “We want to have hazards reduced in the trenching industry, so it’s become an agency priority.”
An NEP on amputations is set to expire at the end of the fiscal year, and OSHA is planning to release a revised version."
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