Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2012/04/18/2012-8881/rigging-equipment-for-material-handling-construction-standard-correction-and-technical-amendment
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Federal Register :: Rigging Equipment for Material Handling Construction Standard; Correction and Technical Amendment
Rigging Equipment for Material Handling Construction Standard; Correction and Technical Amendment
A Rule by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration on 04/18/2012
The effective date for the corrections and technical amendment to the standards is April 18, 2012.
23117-23118 (2 pages)
https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2012-8881 https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2012-8881
OSHA is correcting its sling standard for construction titled “Rigging Equipment for Material Handling” by removing the rated capacity tables and making minor, nonsubstantive revisions to the regulatory text.
General and technical information: Kenneth Stevanus, OSHA Office of Engineering Safety, OSHA, Room N-3621, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20210; telephone: (202) 693-2260.
In OSHA's Standards Improvement Project-Phase III final rule, published on June 8, 2011, the Agency stated that it was amending its standards regulating slings for general industry, shipyard employment, and construction by removing outdated tables that specify safe working loads, and revising other provisions that referenced the outdated tables (see 76 FR at 33591 and 33597). To replace these tables, OSHA added requirements that prohibit employers from loading slings in excess of the recommended safe working load prescribed on identification markings located on, or attached to, each sling; these requirements also prohibit the use of slings that do not have such markings.
While OSHA removed the load-capacity tables for slings from § 1910.184 (general industry; tables N-184-1, and N-184-3 through N-184-22) and § 1915.118 (shipyard employment; tables G-1 through G-5, G-7 through G-8, and G-10), including references to these tables in § 1915.112 and § 1915.113, the Agency failed to include in the regulatory text provisions to remove the tables in § 1926.251 (construction; tables H-1, and H-3 through H-19), and redesignate Table H-2 to H-1 and Table H-20 to H-2. This notice, therefore, amends § 1926.251 by removing most of the existing tables (H-1, and H-3 through H-19), redesignating Table H-2 as Table H-1 and Table H-20 as Table H-2, and revising paragraphs (b)(5) and (c)(5) to indicate the new table number.
David Michaels, MPH, Ph.D., Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20210, authorized the preparation of this document. Accordingly, pursuant to Section 6 of 29 U.S.C. 655, Section 4 of 5 U.S.C. 553, Secretary of Labor's Order No. 1-2012 (77 FR 3912), and 29 CFR 1911.5.
Accordingly, OSHA is amending 29 CFR part 1926 by making the following corrections and technical amendments:
1. Revise the authority citation for subpart H to read as follows:
2. Amend § 1926.251 as follows:
a. Revise paragraph (b)(5) and (c)(5) introductory text;
b. Add a reserved paragraph (c)(5)(ii);
c. Remove Tables H-1 and H-3 through H-19; and
d. Redesignate Table H-2 as Table H-1 and Table H-20 as Table H-2.
[FR Doc. 2012-8881 Filed 4-17-12; 8:45 am]