Posts tagged 'I2P2'

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is publishing in the Federal Register today (June 22, 2011) a proposed rule to amend Appendix A in Subpart B of Its Injury and Illness Recording and Reporting regulation. Appendix A contains a list of industries that are partially exempt from maintaining records of occupational injuries and illnesses, generally due to their relatively low...

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), the wing of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) charged with workplace health issues, has come out with its list of objectives for Healthy People 2020, a program launched by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Among the objectives are to reduce work-related deaths from injuries from 4.0 per 100,000 to 3.6, reduc...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) employs 2.1 million people, but just 2,335 of them are field inspectors. The agency is thus requesting an additional $24.7 million in its fiscal year 2012 budget to expand by 52 inspectors. As budget negotiations stall in Congress over how deep to cut spending, the fate of the OSHA request is—at best—uncertain. In addition to ...

OSHA chief David Michaels, during a Web chat earlier this week, stressed that creating new standards for workplace injury and illness programs was his agency's highest regulatory priority. The revamped injury and illness program, yet to be formalized, is being dubbed "I2P2." “This is a very important project and it is important that the agency get it right,” Michaels said ...