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Docket S777: The Proposed (and Defeated)
Ergonomic Standard of 2000:
Testimonies, Comments and Links
Testimony
Synposis of OSHA's recognition of back supports as Personal Protective
Equipment (PPE). Excerpts of Chase Ergonomics, Inc. testimony
presented during formation of the new standard, from the
Federal Register.
Link to the Standard
Federal
Register site. Scroll down to Occupational Safety and Health
for links to the standard.
Employers choosing to include back belts
in their efforts to reduce the risk of back injury must provide
them at no cost to the employee:
Read OSHA's Personal Protective
Equipment General Requirements, Standard 29 CFR 1910132.
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HISTORY, HEARING TESTIMONY AND COMMENTS
As recently as 1996, the qualification
of back supports as PPE was questioned by OSHA. "The Agency
is (now) persuaded that the evidence for the effectiveness of
black belts. . . .exceeds that available for other types of equipment
that workers wear that are classified as PPE."
Read OSHA's old 1996 statement
and new 2000 opinion.
Spring 2000 Comments by Chase Ergonomics, Inc. to the OSHA
Record on Ergonomics, Responding to the November 23, 1999 Notice
of Proposed Rulemaking.
OSHA Hearing testimony and reference
documentary evidence of Dr. Malcom
Pope, Liberty Safe Work
Professor at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and Director
of the Liberty Safe Work Centre.
Presented to the OSHA Office of Public Affairs, Docket No. S-777,
U.S. Department of Labor, May 10, 2000, concerning MSDs. sudden
loading, application of the proposed standard and more.
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OSHA hearing testimony and reference documentary evidence
of Dr. David Wilder, University of Iowa, to the OSHA Office
of Public Affairs, Docket No. S-777, U.S. Department of Labor,
March 21, 2000.
Concerns application of the ergonomic standard to currently excluded
industries, back supports as P.P.E., and more. |
