On Feb. 16, 2022, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Labor published a Notice of proposed rulemaking for Powered Industrial Trucks Design Standard Update.
The notice includes updating, 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 accordance with those national consensus standards incorporated by reference in the OSHA standards, if the employer can demonstrate that the truck it uses 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.
Submit written comments on this proposed rule, hearing requests and other information (including comments on the information-collection (paperwork) determination described under section III.C. of the preamble) by May 17, 2022. All submissions must bear a postmark or provide other evidence of the submission date.
To learn more, please contact AEM Director of Product Stewardship Jeff Jurgens at jjurgens@aem.org.
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