Source: USDOL, 12/2/21 The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health
Administration is extending the period for submitting comments on the Advance
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for Heat Injury and Illness Prevention in Outdoor
and Indoor Work Settings. Comments on the ANPRM must now be submitted by Jan.
26, 2022
The 30-day extension provides stakeholders more
time to review the ANPRM and collect information and data necessary for comment. Currently, OSHA does not have a heat-specific standard to
protect millions of workers in indoor and outdoor work settings from exposure
to hazardous heat conditions. In recent months, OSHA has initiated several
efforts to protect workers from heat-related
illnesses and deaths while working in hazardously hot indoor
and outdoor environments. In addition to pursuing a heat-specific workplace
rule, OSHA instituted a heat-related enforcement initiative and plans to issue a National Emphasis
Program for heat-related safety efforts in 2022. The agency began the process of considering a heat-specific
workplace rule to address heat-related illnesses when it published the ANPRM on Oct. 27, 2021. Submit comments, identified by Docket No. OSHA-2021-0009,
electronically at www.regulations.gov,
which is the Federal e-Rulemaking Portal. The Federal e-Rulemaking Portal is
the only way to submit comments on this ANPRM.
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