[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 145 (Friday, October 7, 1994)]
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EXPRESSING SENSE OF CONGRESS WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN REGULATIONS OF THE 
             OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION

  Mr. MURPHY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on Education and Labor be discharged from further consideration of the 
concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 14) expressing the sense of 
Congress with respect to certain regulations of the Occupational Safety 
and Health Administration, and ask for its immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the title of the concurrent resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Sharp). Is there objection to the 
request of the gentleman from Pennsylvania?
  There was no objection.
  The Clerk read the concurrent resolution, as follows:

                             H. Con Res. 14

       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.

  The concurrent resolution was agreed to.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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