Time Change Implies Need for Safety Strategies
- Employers are advised to adopt several new safety strategies to start off this week following the jump to Daylight Savings Time and the loss of an hour of sleep.
- One suggestion is not scheduling any dangerous or risky work for Monday and Tuesday, particularly work at heights, work with heavy machinery, and work with dangerous chemicals.
- Another is to increase the number of safety monitors today and tomorrow to help offset their employees’ lack of alertness.
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Washington State Seeks to Sync Reporting With Federal OSHA
- The Washington State Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) is seeking to update its requirements for workplace injury and illness tracking to sync with new OSHA federal standards.
- The agency has filed a CR-102 Proposed Rulemaking for Chapter 296-27 WAC, which governs recordkeeping and reporting of workplace injuries.
- Federal OSHA’s July 2023 rule change took effect in January 2024 requiring states with their own occupational safety plans to implement equivalent measures.
- The state’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) will hold a public hearing on the proposed changes on April 16, beginning with a pre-hearing overview at 9:00 a.m. PDT, followed by the formal hearing at 9:30 a.m. The public can join the hearing online via Zoom (link).
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