Ergonomics

ORC filed comments to OSHA March 30, 2010 in response to its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to restore a column to the OSHA 300 Log that employers would use to record work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs).  This proposed rule would require employers to place a check mark in the MSD column, instead of the column they currently mark, if a case is an MSD that meets the Recordkeeping regulation's general recording requirements.  OSHA’s purpose in restoring the column is to improve the accuracy and completeness of national occupational injury and illness statistics; provide valu

ORC's comments in response to OSHA's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to restore a column for recording of musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) on the OSHA 300 Log and other issues are attached below.

On January 28, OSHA announced that it would publish a proposed rule to revise its Occupational Injury and Illness Recording and Reporting regulation (29 CFR 1904) to restore a column to the OSHA 300 Log that employers would use to record work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSD). This proposed rule would require employers to place a check mark in the MSD column, instead of the column they currently mark, if a case is an MSD that meets the Recordkeeping regulation’s general recording requirements. The proposal appeared in the Federal Register on January 29, 2010 (see atta

Senator Al Franken (D-MN), on October 15, 2009, introduced legislation entitled the “Nurse Protection Act” (S. 1788), which would require OSHA to issue a standard mandating health care workers to use mechanical lift equipment when moving patients.