[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 14 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. CON. RES. 14


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

            October 7 (legislative day, September 12), 1995

                                Received

            October 8 (legislative day, September 12), 1995

         Referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
Expressing the sense of Congress with respect to certain regulations of 
           the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Whereas it is in the public interest to reduce the frequency of workplace 
        accidents and the human and economic costs associated with such 
        injuries;
Whereas workplace accidents involving powered industrial trucks are often the 
        result of operation by poorly trained, untrained, or unauthorized 
        operators;
Whereas Federal regulations promulgated by the Occupational Safety and Health 
        Administration and codified at 29 C.F.R. 1910.178 require that operators 
        of powered industrial trucks be trained and authorized;
Whereas existing regulations lack any guidelines to measure whether operators of 
        powered industrial trucks are in fact trained and authorized;
Whereas operator training programs have been demonstrated to reduce the 
        frequency and severity of workplace accidents involving powered 
        industrial trucks; and
Whereas a petition to amend existing regulations to specify the proper 
        components of a training program for operation of powered industrial 
        trucks has been pending before the Occupational Safety and Health 
        Administration since March 1988: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is requested to 
publish, within one year of passage of this resolution, proposed 
regulations amending the regulation published as 29 C.F.R. 1910.178 to 
specify the components of an adequate operator training program and to 
provide that only trained employees be authorized to operate powered 
industrial trucks.

            Passed the House of Representatives October 7, 1994.

            Attest:

                                           DONNALD K. ANDERSON,

                                                                 Clerk.