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MACOSH EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Baltimore, MD
December 6 - 7, 2000
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The sixteenth meeting of the OSHA
Maritime Advisory Committee for Occupational Safety and
Health (MACOSH) was called to order at 8:45 a.m. on
December 6, 2000 in Baltimore, MD. An electronic
transcript of the full meeting was sent separately to you
for your review and record. With one minor addition
recommended by Charles Thompson, the Executive Summary and
the transcript on the July 2000 meeting were approved
unanimously. Larry Reed and Larry Liberatore began the
meeting and reviewed the agenda for the current meeting.
Larry Liberatore and Susan Sherman led
a discussion on the current charter. The charter is to
advise the Assistant Secretary for OSHA on all matters
relating to safety and health of workers in maritime
industries, specifically enforcement, training and
outreach and regulatory efforts. Unlike other advisory
committees (e.g., NACOSH, and ACCSH) that are statutory in
nature, MACOSH is a discretionary committee that serves at
the discretion of the Assistant Secretary for Occupational
Safety and Health. The current 2-year charter is to expire
in March 2002.
Stew Burkhammer, the chairperson of
ACCSH, the Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and
Health, gave a presentation on how that particular
committee works and some of the topics they are currently
working on. ACCSH meets four times a year for up to 5
days, which allows ample workgroup time. Among current
ACCSH workgroup activities are cranes, diversified
workforce, fall protection, hexavalent chromium, and
musculoskeletal disorders (i.e., ergonomics). New
workgroups include noise, process safety management, and
silica in construction.
Tom Galassi, Deputy Director of
Compliance, provided an update on enforcement and
compliance issues. The topics discussed included the tool
bag directive, the data initiative, the national emphasis
program for ship scrapping, the multi-employer policy, the
Navy lock-out/tag-out program, and employee involvement.
Mr. Galassi requested the committee’s input on whether
boat manufacturing should be covered under 1915 or 1910
and for the committee to provide scenarios of
multi-employer for the appendices of the multi-employer
work-site policy.
Steve Butler, Division Chief of
Division of Maritime Compliance, provided an update on
maritime compliance issues. The topics discussed included
the powered industrial truck application, the ergonomic
study in longshoring, the vertical tandem lift issue, the
1919 Cargo Gear Accreditation/Certification program, the
work being done with SHAC on developing a video on
fatalities within the shipyard industry, and the review of
the eCat.
Chap Pierce, Acting Director of
Maritime Standards, provided an update on current OSHA
standards. Mr. Pierce explained that with the publishing
of the Ergonomics standard, that the 10 OSHA standards
teams were now back to their individual working schedules.
The standards discussed included
The Safety and Health Program
Standard
The Recordkeeping Standard, which was
close to being sent to the Office of Management and
Budget and
would be effective January 1, 2002
The PPE Payment rule will soon be
completed as a final rule
The Fire Protection Negotiated
Rulemaking committee is planning a meeting for Feb. 2001
The Longshoring Guidebook is at the
printers
The revised Silica proposal is still
due in 2001
Tom Pope provided an update on training
issues that are currently being worked on. The shipyard
training course at Kings Point is scheduled for two times
in 2001 and the OSHA Training Institute maritime training
course, which includes instruction on the shipyard and
longshoring OSHA standards is scheduled for June of 2001.
A longshoring training course to be held at Kings Point,
similar to the shipyard course, is currently being
developed. Mr. Pope discussed the eCat, electronic
compliance assistance tool, that is currently being
developed. There are several portions completed, and this
is available for compliance officers and for employers for
training purposes.
Deborah Gabry from OSHA Office of
Technical Support provided an update on some outreach
activities. With the assistance of MARITECH, a hazard
matrix was developed that would involve taking the most
prevalent injuries in the industry, identifying them and
then developing prevention or abatement techniques.
The remainder of the first day was
spent in break out sessions.
On December 7, 2000, Dr. Steve Huddock
from NIOSH provided an update on the NIOSH/NSRP Ergonomics
Study. Currently, Steve and his study team are in the
process of developing and assessing the effectiveness of
interventions for the ergonomic problems that have been
identified at several shipyards and longshoring
facilities. In addition, ergonomics training is being
developed. The final phase is to produce separate best
ergonomic practice guidelines for shipyard and longshoring
industries. Steve has also developed a NIOSH website of
ergonomic solutions to date (). The expected completion
date for the shipyard portion of the study is September
2002. The longshoring portion of the study is expected to
be completed by September 2004.
Jim Maddux, Office of Safety Standards,
discussed the OSHA Recordkeeping Standard. This regulation
will include the maritime industry and will become
effective January 1, 2002. This regulation was sent to
OMB, and plans are to have this published in the Federal
Register as a final rule in January. Mr. Maddux agreed to
give an update on this regulation at a future MACOSH
meeting after it has been published.
The remainder of the morning was spent
in breakout sessions. Captain John McNeill presented a
summary from the longshoring session. Capt. McNeill began
with listing the items on the longshoring priorities list
(from October 2000) that had been completed, removed, and
added.
The VTL issue was discussed in
detail; Paul Rossi gave a presentation on the ILO
meeting held in South Africa, and what was accomplished.
A work group was established to
develop operational issues for VTL’s
A terminal traffic workgroup will be
formed to develop a draft notice to outside truckers on
terminal safety and driving rules.
Other topics discussed included root
causes of accidents and the development of an analysis
tool, the proposed subjects for the Kings Point
Longshoring training course for OSHA compliance
officers, a presentation on container pedestal lashing,
tri-party agreements, and current jurisdictional
problems.
Jim Thornton presented the summary from
the Shipyard session. James Sammons from Moon Engineering
gave a presentation on a locking device and fire-retardant
cloth. The priorities list for the Shipyard group from
October 2000 was reviewed and refined.
A liaison group was established to
work with SHAC and report back to MACOSH. This group
includes Larry Reed, Chico McGill and Terry Preston.
Larry Reed will head up an
inter-advisory group to work with other OSHA Advisory
Committees.
A workgroup for electrical hazards
was established, and will include Chico McGill, Jim
Thornton, Steve Morris, Emile Benard, NIOSH, Iona Evans
and Joe Daddura. This group will review and make
recommendations on Subpart L.
A competent person work group
consisting of Emile Benard, Steve Morris, Bob Scott and
Laura Weems was established to look at the problems
associated with Shipyard Competent Person’s (SCP’s).
Other topics discussed included
diesel exhaust, permissible exposure limits, the NIOSH
ergonomics study, multi-employer work sites, blasting
and confined spaces, testing protocol for respirator
change-out, noise, the top 10 hazards and abatement,
focused training, the former SESAC recommendations, and
the 1988 OSHA standards proposals (e.g., Subpart N,
Scaffolds; Subpart D, Welding, Cutting and Heating;
Subpart E, Access and Egress; and Subpart M, Fall
Protection), work organization (100% safe), positive
measures of safety and health performance, the self
evaluating programs, and communication.
The full committee then discussed plans
for the next meeting to be held in conjunction with the
Applied Ergonomics Conference in Orlando, FL on March
13-14, 2001, or in the San Diego or Washington, DC areas
on March 28-29, 2001. The subsequent meeting was
tentatively scheduled for July 18-19, 2001 at a location
to be determined.
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