[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 250 (Thursday, December 30, 1999)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 73448-73458]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-33860]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

29 CFR Part 1910

[Docket No. S-777]
RIN No. 1218-AB36


Ergonomics Program; Corrections

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), 
Department of Labor.

ACTION: Proposed rule; technical corrections.

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SUMMARY: This document makes technical corrections in OSHA's proposed 
ergonomics program standard, which was published on November 23, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: OSHA's Ergonomics Team at (202) 693-
2116, or visit the OSHA Homepage at www.osha.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OSHA published its proposed ergonomics 
program standard on November 23, 1999 (64 FR 65768). The published 
document contained miscellaneous errors. We are publishing this 
document to correct errors that appeared in the preamble and regulatory 
text of the proposed standard. The corrections refer to page numbers 
and columns in the November 23, 1999 Federal Register.
    Charles N. Jeffress, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational 
Safety and Health, directed the preparation of this document. OSHA is 
issuing this document under the authority of sections 4, 6(b), and 8 of 
the Occupational Safety and Health Act (29 U.S.C. 653, 655, 657), and 
29 CFR part 1911.
    Accordingly, OSHA is correcting the following errors in FR Doc. 99-
28981 published in the November 23, 1999 Federal Register:

Corrections to Preamble

    1. On page 65768, left column, bottom paragraph, in the last 
sentence, correct the words ``approximately $900 per covered 
establishment'' to read ``approximately $700 per general industry 
establishment''.
    2. On page 65778, left column, top partial paragraph, correct the 
last sentence to read as follows: ``Where employers do not have manual 
handling or manufacturing jobs, or jobs that have given rise to a 
covered MSD, the ergonomics program standard would not apply at all.''
    3. On page 65790, left column, first full paragraph, correct the 
second sentence to read as follows: ``As explained in the summary and 
explanation for those sections, a covered MSD, as defined by this 
standard, is one that occurs after the effective date of this standard; 
is an OSHA-recordable MSD (as defined by OSHA's recordkeeping rule, 29 
CFR part 1904); and is determined by the employer to have occurred in a 
job in which the physical work activities and conditions are reasonably 
likely to have caused or contributed to the type of MSD reported (or to 
have aggravated a pre-existing MSD), and those activities and 
conditions are a core element of the job and/or make up a significant 
amount of the employee's worktime.''
    4. On page 65797, right column, bullet points under the first full 
paragraph, add the following as a fifth bullet point: `` The 
requirements of the ergonomics program standard.''
    5. On page 65804, right column, third full paragraph, fifth 
sentence, correct the introductory language to read: ``For these 
employers, the job hazard analysis includes two possible results:''.
    6. On page 65804, right column, third full paragraph, fifth 
sentence, correct the last part of the sentence (beginning ``and 
second, * * *'') to read as follows: ``and second, the employer has 
determined that no job fix is needed because risk factors are not 
present to the extent that a covered MSD is reasonably likely to 
occur.''.
    7. On page 65821, left column, under heading ``Section 1910.918 
What must I do to analyze a problem job?'', correct the paragraph 
heading ``(b)'' to read ``(d)''.
    8. On page 65829, right column, correct the third paragraph from 
the end to read as follows: ``Back belts/braces and wrist braces/
splints are not considered PPE for the purposes of this standard.''
    9. On page 65836, left column, second paragraph under the table, 
correct the first sentence by deleting the words ``prior to the 
occurrence of covered MSDs''.
    10. On page 65844, left column, first full paragraph, correct the 
exhibit number at the end of the paragraph to read ``Ex. 26-432''.
    11. On page 65844, left column, in the text of section 1910.932, 
paragraph (d), correct the word ``work-related'' to read ``covered''.
    12. On page 65853, left column, second full paragraph, in the last 
sentence, correct the number ``6'' to read ``7''.
    13. On page 65862, left column, in the note to the table at the top 
of the column, correct the introductory language to read ``Note to 
Sec. 1910.940:''.

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    14. On page 65864, right column, in the second full paragraph, 
correct the term ``medical management'' to read ``MSD management'' in 
the second and fourth sentences.
    15. On page 65986, right column, bottom paragraph, correct the next 
to last sentence (``Table VIII-1 shows that the total MSD incidence 
rates * * *'') to read as follows: ``Table VIII-1 shows that the total 
MSD incidence rates in general industry range as high as 1,448 per 
10,000 workers (in Public Building and Related Furniture (SIC 253)).''
    16. On pages 65987 to 65993, column ``Total MSD incidence rate (per 
10,000 workers)'' of Table VIII-1 Estimated Number of Establishments 
and Employees and Estimated Annual Incidence of All MSDs, by 3-Digit 
SIC, contained errors for some SICs. The correct numbers are shown 
below.

 Corrections to Table VIII-1: Estimated Number of Establishments and Employees and Estimated Annual Incidence of
                                            All MSD's, by 3-Digit SIC
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                                                                                                     Total MSD
                                                                                                  incidence rate
                SIC                                            Industry                             (per 10,000
                                                                                                     workers)
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302................................  Rubber and plastics footwear...............................             724
313................................  Footwear cut stock.........................................             347
315................................  Leather gloves and mittens.................................             753
328................................  Cut stone and stone prods..................................             397
387................................  Watches, clocks, and parts.................................             144
417................................  Bus terminals..............................................             509
423................................  Trucking Terminals fac.....................................             501
461................................  Pipelines, excpt natural gas...............................             446
474................................  Rental of railroad cars....................................             113
482................................  Telegrph and other comm....................................              75
489................................  Communication ser., n.e.c..................................              45
496................................  Steam and air-cond. supplies...............................             225
527................................  Department stores..........................................             371
544................................  Dairy products stores......................................              91
545................................  Retail bakeries............................................              68
552................................  Used car dealers...........................................              28
557................................  Motorcycle dealers.........................................              20
559................................  Auto dealers, n.e.c........................................              28
563................................  Wm's access. and specialty strs............................              41
564................................  Chldrn's and infants' wear strs............................              53
608................................  Foreign banking............................................              47
611................................  Federal credit agencies....................................              15
614................................  Personal cred. institutions................................              11
622................................  Commodity contracts brokers................................              18
635................................  Surety insurance...........................................              48
636................................  Title insurance............................................              97
637................................  Pension and health funds...................................              42
639................................  Ins. Carriers, n.e.c.......................................              72
654................................  Title abstract offices.....................................             102
671................................  Holding offices............................................              57
679................................  Miscellaneous investing....................................              43
703................................  Camps and rec. vehicle parks...............................              21
704................................  Membership-basis org. hotels...............................              21
724................................  Barber shops...............................................             134
725................................  Shoe Repair................................................             134
731................................  Advertising................................................             124
754................................  Automotive serv., exc repair...............................             153
762................................  Electrical repair shops....................................             133
763................................  Watch and jewelry repair...................................             133
764................................  Reupholstery and furn. repair..............................              96
781................................  Motion picture production..................................             249
782................................  Motion picture dist........................................             575
783................................  Motion picture theaters....................................             324
784................................  Video tape rental..........................................             312
791................................  Dance studios and schools..................................             203
802................................  Dentists offices and clinics...............................              50
803................................  Osteopathic physicians.....................................              28
823................................  Libraries..................................................              22
824................................  Vocational schools.........................................              23
829................................  Schools, n.e.c.............................................              22
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    17. On page 66018, correct Table VIII-4 by deleting this page.
    18. On page 66019, left column, second paragraph from the bottom, 
correct the third sentence to read: ``In an industry such as this, even 
the very small cost of the proposed ergonomics standard per affected 
establishment--$446--represents a large share of annual profits.''
    19. On page 66019, right column, third paragraph from the bottom, 
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last sentence, correct ``27 industries'' to read ``15 industries''.
    20. On page 66019, right column, second paragraph from the bottom, 
in the first sentence, correct ``0.04 percent'' to read ``0.05 
percent''.
    21. On pages 66020 to 66026, the columns entitled ``Annualized 
Compliance Costs as a Percentage of Revenue--SBA (percent)'' and 
``Annualized Compliance Costs as a Percentage of Profits--SBA 
(percent)'' of Table VIII-5 contained errors. Substitute the following 
corrected Table VIII-5.

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    22. On page 66054, left column, correct the reference to the 
Eastern Research Group document to read as follows: ``Eastern Research 
Group [ERG, 1999]. Tabulations from OSHA's 1993 Ergonomics Survey, 
Lexington, MA, 1999, Ex. 28-7.''
    23. On page 66054, left column, in the reference to the Robert 
Morris Associates document, add ``, Ex. 26-1641'' after ``Philadelphia, 
PA 1996''.
    24. On page 66063, left column, in paragraph 5 under ``G. MSD 
Management,'' correct ``medical'' to ``MSD'' in the first line.
    25. On page 66065, left column, in the first paragraph under ``C. 
Notice of Intention to Appear at the Hearings,'' correct the date in 
the first line to read ``January 24, 2000''.

Corrections to Regulatory Text

PART 1910--[CORRECTED]

Subpart Y--[Corrected]


Sec. 1910.945  [Corrected]

    1. On page 66075, left column, correct the section number 
``Sec. 910.945'' to read ``Sec. 1910.945''.
    2. On page 66075, left column, in Sec. 1910.945, in the definition 
of ``Administrative controls,'' lines 2 and 3, correct the phrase 
``magnitude, frequency or duration'' to read ``magnitude, frequency, 
and/or duration''.
    3. On page 66075, left column, in Sec. 1910.945, in the definition 
of ``Covered MSD,'' correct paragraphs (1)(iv) and (2)(iv) by adding 
the words ``of the job'' after the words ``core element''.
    4. On page 66075, right column, in Sec. 1910.945, in paragraph (2) 
of the definition of ``Ergonomic risk factors,'' lines 5 and 6, correct 
the phrase ``duration, frequency and magnitude'' to read ``duration, 
frequency, and/or magnitude''.
    5. On page 66076, left column, in Sec. 1910.945, in the definition 
for ``Manual handling jobs,'' in the heading of the table, correct 
``(2) EXAMPLES OF JOB/TASKS THAT TYPICALLY ARE NOT MANUAL HANDLING 
JOBS'' to read ``(2) EXAMPLES OF JOBS THAT TYPICALLY ARE NOT MANUAL 
HANDLING JOBS''.
    6. On page 66077, right column, in Sec. 1910.945, in paragraph (1) 
of the definition of ``OSHA recordable MSD,'' line 2, correct ``pre-
existing MSD.'' to read ``pre-existing MSD; and''.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 23rd day of December, 1999.
Charles N. Jeffress,
Assistant Secretary of Labor.
[FR Doc. 99-33860 Filed 12-29-99; 8:45 am]
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