By James L. Curtis, Adam R. Young, Patrick D. Joyce, Daniel R. Birnbaum, and Craig B. Simonsen
Seyfarth Synopsis: The National Safety Council (NSC) launched an replace to its annual listing of OSHA’s prime-ten cited requirements. The listing supplies a place to begin for employers to evaluation their very own safety applications on an annual foundation.
Patrick Kapust, deputy director of OSHA’s Directorate of Enforcement Applications, introduced OSHA’s preliminary Top 10 most regularly cited workplace safety requirements for fiscal 12 months 2021. The listing was introduced nearly in the course of the 2021 NSC Safety Congress & Expo, and summarized in NSC’s Safety+Health journal.
Based on OSHA and NSC, Fall Safety in building (1926.501) stays on the prime of the listing for the eleventh 12 months in a row. Seemingly on account of COVID-19 issues, Respiratory Safety (1910.134) moved up a number of spots to the second mostly cited customary, adopted by Ladders (1926.1053). Hazard Communication, which spent the final a number of years at No. 2, moved to the fifth spot on this 12 months’s listing.
Drumroll please…OSHA’s Top 10 most frequently cited workplace safety requirements for FY 2021 are:
- Fall Safety in Building (1926.501): 5,295 violations
- Respiratory Safety (1910.134): 2,527
- Ladders (1926.1053): 2,026
- Scaffolding (1926.451): 1,948
- Hazard Communication (1910.1200): 1,947
- Lockout/Tagout (1910.147): 1,698
- Fall Safety in Normal Trade (1926.503): 1,666
- Private Protecting Equipment – Eye and Face Safety (1926.102): 1,452
- Powered Industrial Vans (1910.178): 1,420
- Machine Guarding (1910.212): 1,113
As 2021 involves an in depth, employers ought to take this chance to conduct an annual evaluation of their safety and health applications, with an eye fixed towards addressing OSHA’s prime-ten most-cited violations. Although not on the listing, OSHA has telegraphed that COVID-19 inspections following the newly-introduced National Emphasis Program shall be a precedence in 2022. OSHA will conduct much more inspections if OSHA’s COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Momentary Standard survives its legal challenges.
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