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Timestamp: 2019-04-25 20:01:37+00:00

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Notice is hereby given of proposed rulemaking and public hearing by the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR), Hawaii Occupational Safety and Health Division (HIOSH), to Title 12, Subtitle 8, Part 1, Chapter 52.1, Hawaii Administrative Rules (HAR), pursuant to the Occupational Safety and Health Law, Chapter 396, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), and the Hawaii Administrative Procedure Act, Chapter 91, HRS.
The proposed amendments bring the HIOSH standards into conformity with the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) standards for recording and reporting occupational injuries and illnesses. The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 permits states to operate their own occupational safety and health programs as long as the development and enforcement of safety and health standards are "
" as the OSHA standards. Therefore, HIOSH must adopt the OSHA standards.
a. §12-52.1-1(a)-changes the reporting requirements from any fatality, hospitalization of three or more employees or property damage in excess of $25,000 to any fatality, the inpatient hospitalization of an employee, an employee’s amputation or loss of an eye, or property damage in excess of $25,000.
b. §12-52.1-1(b)-modifies Appendix A, titled "Non-Mandatory Appendix A to Subpart B - Partially Exempt Industries", dated March 17, 2017, which is made part of Chapter 52.1 and located at the end of Chapter 52.1. Appendix A exempts certain industrial sectors (retail, service, finance, insurance and real estate) from reporting and recording requirements if they are in a relatively low hazard sector. Lower-hazard industries in OSHA’s previous rules were classified within Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) major industry groups 52-89 and have an average Lost Workday Injury and Illness (LWDII) rate at or below 75 percent of the three-year-average national LWDII rate for private industry.
The LWDII rate is an incidence rate that represents the number of non-fatal injuries and illnesses resulting in days away from work or job restriction per 100 full-time-equivalent employees per year. The LWDII data used to compile the previous list of partially-exempt industry groups were taken from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII) for the years 1996, 1997, and 1998. The current OSHA list of partially- exempt industry groups is based on 2007-2009 injury/illness data from industry groups in the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 44-81. Because overall injury and illness rates have been declining, the threshold Days Away, Restriction, or Transfer (DART) rate for partial exemption is 1.5 (75% of the 2007-2009 average private industry DART rate of 2.0), down from the previous 2.325 (75% of the 1998 average private industry LWDII rate of 3.1).
c. §12-52.1-1(b)-amends the reporting requirements in conformance with the proposed §12-52.1-1(a).
d. §12-52.1-1(e)-amends the reporting requirements in conformance with the proposed §12-52.1-1(a) and adds the requirement for reporting of such injuries to HIOSH within twenty-four hours.
e. §12-52.1-1(g)-adds a new subsection that defines amputation as follows: "An amputation is the traumatic loss of a limb or other external body part. Amputations include a part, such as a limb or appendage, which has been severed, cut off, amputated (either completely or partially); fingertip amputations with or without bone loss; medical amputations resulting from irreparable damage; and amputations of body parts that have since been reattached."
f. §12-52.1-1(h)-a re-lettered subsection (from "g" to "h") that specifies exempt industries by NAICS code instead of the obsolete SIC code. The U.S. Department of Labor is transitioning from using SIC codes to NAICS codes.
2. Amendment to section 12-52.1-2 "Incorporation of federal standard.": Amends the applicable Code of Federal Regulations from 2011 to 2016.
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(808) 586-9116. A copy of the proposed rules will be mailed to any interested person who requests a copy and pays ten cents per page plus postage. The proposed rules may be viewed at our website at http://labor.hawaii.gov/hiosh/proposed-rules/.
The public hearing will be continued, if necessary, to a time, date, and place announced at the scheduled hearing.
Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request. Call the Hawaii Occupational Safety and Health Division at (808) 586-9116 (voice), or dial 711 and then ask for (808) 586-9116. A request for reasonable accommodations should be made no later than ten working days prior to the needed accommodations.

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