[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Con. Res. 35 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. CON. RES. 35

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


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               August 6 (legislative day, June 30), 1993

 Mr. Wofford submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was 
         referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
To express 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 Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), 
That the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is requested to 
publish, within one year of the date of enactment of this Resolution, 
proposed regulations amending the regulation published as section 
1910.178 of title 29, Code of Federal Regulations, to specify the 
components of an adequate operator training program and to provide that 
only trained employees be authorized to operate powered industrial 
trucks.

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