G/TBT/N/USA/1835  
17 February 2022  
(22-1541) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  UNITED STATES OF AMERICA   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), 
Department of Labor [1865]  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding t he notification shall be indicated if different from above:   
Please submit comments to: USA WTO TBT Enquiry Point, Email: usatbtep@nist.gov  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Powered 
industrial trucks standards; Special purpose vehicles (ICS 43.160), Industrial trucks (ICS 
53.060)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Powered 
Industrial Trucks Design Standard Update (10 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  Notice of proposed rulemaking - OSHA proposes updating the 
design and construction  requirements of the powered industrial trucks standards for 
general  industry and construction by incorporating by reference the applicable  provisions 
of the most relevant national consensus standards from the  American National Standards 
Institute/Industrial Truck Standards Development Foundation (ANSI/ITSDF). OSHA also 
proposes allowing  employers to use powered industrial trucks not constructed 
in accor dance with those national consensus standards incorporated by  reference in the 
OSHA standards if the employer can demonstrate that  the truck they use was designed 
and constructed in a manner that  provides employee protection that is at least as effective 
as the national consensus standards incorporated by reference in OSHA's  standards.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of human health or safety; Harmonization  
8. Relevant documents:  87 Federal Register (FR) 8755, 16 February 2022; Title 29 Code 
of Federal Regulations (CFR) Parts 1910 and 1926:  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2022-02-16/html/2022 -01155.htm  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2022-02-16/pdf/2022 -01155.pdf  
This notice of proposed rulemaking is identified by Docket Number OS HA-2020-0008. The 
Docket Folder is available from Regulations.gov 
at https://www.regulations.gov/docket/OSHA -2020-0008/document  and provides access 
to primary and suppor ting documents as well as comments received. Documents are also 
accessible from  Regulations.gov  by searching the Docket Number. WTO Members and G/TBT/N/USA/1835  
 
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  their stakeholders are asked to submit comments to the  USA TBT Enquiry Point  by or 
before  4pm Eastern Time  on 17 May 2022.   Comments received by the USA TBT Enquiry 
Point from WTO Members and their stakeholders will be shar ed with the regulator and will 
also be submitted to the  Docket  on Regulations.gov if received within the comment 
period.  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  17 May 2022  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2022/TBT/USA/22_1680_00_e.pdf