Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health (ACCSH): Notice of Meetings
| Published date | 18 March 2020 |
| Citation | 85 FR 15503 |
| Record Number | 2020-05615 |
| Section | Notices |
| Court | Occupational Safety And Health Administration |
Federal Register, Volume 85 Issue 53 (Wednesday, March 18, 2020)
[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 53 (Wednesday, March 18, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15503-15504]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-05615]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
[Docket No. OSHA-2020-0003]
Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health (ACCSH):
Notice of Meetings
AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Labor.
ACTION: Notice of ACCSH and ACCSH Workgroup meetings.
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SUMMARY: The Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health
(ACCSH) will meet April 29, 2020, in Washington, DC. In conjunction
with the ACCSH meeting, ACCSH Workgroups will meet April 28, 2020.
DATES: ACCSH meeting: ACCSH will meet from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., ET,
Wednesday, April 29, 2020.
ACCSH Workgroup meetings: Prior to the full Committee meeting,
ACCSH Workgroups will meet Tuesday, April 28, 2020. (For Workgroup
meeting times, see the schedule under ``Workgroup Meetings'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this notice.)
ADDRESSES:
Submission of comments and requests to speak: Submit comments and
requests to speak at the ACCSH and ACCSH Workgroup meetings by Friday,
April 17, 2020, identified by the docket number for this Federal
Register notice (Docket No. OSHA-2020-0003), using one of the following
methods:
Electronically: You may submit comments, including attachments,
electronically at: http://www.regulations.gov, the Federal eRulemaking
Portal. Follow the online instructions for submitting comments.
Facsimile: If your comments, including attachments, do not exceed
10 pages, you may fax them to the OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693-1648.
Regular mail, express mail, hand delivery, and messenger or courier
service: You may submit comments and attachments to the OSHA Docket
Office, Docket No. OSHA-2020-0003, Occupational Safety and Health
Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, Room N-3653, 200 Constitution
Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20210. Deliveries (express mail, hand
(courier) delivery, and messenger service) are accepted during the OSHA
Docket Office's normal business hours, Monday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. to
3:00 p.m., ET.
Instructions: All submissions must include the agency name and the
OSHA docket number for this Federal Register notice (Docket No. OSHA-
2020-0003). Because of security-related procedures, submissions by
regular mail may result in a significant delay in receipt. Please
contact the OSHA Docket Office for information about security
procedures for making submissions by express mail, hand (courier)
delivery, and messenger service.
Requests for special accommodations: Please submit requests for
special accommodations for this ACCSH meeting by Friday, April 17,
2020, to Ms. Gretta Jameson, OSHA, Office of Communications, Room N-
3647, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington,
DC 20210; telephone: (202) 693-1999; email: [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
For press inquiries: Mr. Frank Meilinger, Director, OSHA Office of
Communications, U.S. Department of Labor; telephone (202) 693-1999;
email: [email protected].
For general information about ACCSH: Mr. Damon Bonneau, OSHA,
Directorate of Construction, U.S. Department of Labor; telephone (202)
693-2183; email: [email protected].
For copies of this Federal Register * * * Electronic copies of this
Federal Register Notice are available at: http://www.regulations.gov.
This notice, as well as news releases and other relevant information,
are also available at OSHA's web page at www.osha.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
ACCSH advises the Secretary of Labor and the Assistant Secretary of
Labor for Occupational Safety and Health (Assistant Secretary) in the
formulation of standards affecting the construction industry, and on
policy matters arising in the administration of the safety and health
provisions under the Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act
(Construction Safety Act (CSA)) (40 U.S.C. 3701 et seq.) and the
Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSH Act) (29 U.S.C. 651 et
seq.) (29 CFR 1911.10 and 1912.3). In addition, the OSH Act and CSA
require the Assistant Secretary to consult with ACCSH before the agency
proposes any occupational safety and health standard affecting
construction activities (29 CFR 1911.10; 40 U.S.C. 3704).
ACCSH operates in accordance with the CSA, the OSH Act, the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (FACA) (5 U.S.C. App. 2), and regulations issued
pursuant to those statutes (29 CFR part 1912, 41 CFR part 102-3). ACCSH
generally meets two times a year.
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II. Meeting Information
Workgroup Meetings
Attending the meetings: The following ACCSH workgroups will meet
Tuesday, April 28, 2020, at the U.S. Department of Labor, 200
Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20210. The workgroups will meet
in Conference Rooms N-3437 A, B, C, and D. Due to heighten security
measures, all potential attendees are asked to submit their name to Ms.
Jameson (see ``Requests for special accommodations'' in the ADDRESSES
section of this notice) by Friday, April 17, 2020. Meeting attendees
must use the visitor's entrance located at 3rd & C Streets NW.
Education, Training, and Outreach Workgroup: 9 a.m. to 12
p.m., ET
Meeting agenda:
1. Trench Safety.
2. Fall Prevention.
Emerging and Current Issues Workgroup: 1 to 4 p.m., ET
Meeting agenda:
1. Opioids.
2. Suicides in construction.
ACCSH workgroup meetings are open to the public. For additional
information on ACCSH workgroup meetings or participating in them,
please contact Mr. Bonneau (see ``For general information about ACCSH''
in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this notice).
ACCSH Full Committee Meeting
Attending the meeting: ACCSH will meet from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., ET,
Wednesday, April 29, 2020, at the U.S. Department of Labor, 200
Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20210. The Committee will meet
in Conference Rooms N-3437 A, B, C and D. Due to heighten security
measures, all potential attendees are asked to submit their name to Ms.
Jameson (see ``Requests for special accommodations'' in the ADDRESSES
section of this notice) by Friday, April 17, 2020. Meeting attendees
must use the visitor's entrance located at 3rd & C Streets NW.
Meeting agenda: The tentative agenda for this meeting includes:
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary's agency update and
remarks;
Directorate of Construction update;
Directorate of Standards and Guidance update;
ACCSH's consideration of, and recommendation on, the
following proposals:
--Updating the design and construction requirements of the powered
industrial trucks standards by adding an incorporation by reference to
the applicable provisions of the most recent ANSI/ITSDF consensus
standards;
--Updating the Hazard Communication Standard to maintain alignment with
the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of
Chemicals (GHS);
Silica in Construction update;
ACCSH workgroup reports; and,
Public Comment Period.
Requests to speak and speaker presentations: Attendees who wish to
address ACCSH at either the full committee meeting or the workgroup
meetings must submit a request to speak, as well as any written or
electronic presentation, by Friday, April 17, 2020, using one of the
methods listed in the ADDRESSES section of this notice. The request
must state:
The amount of time requested to speak;
The interest you represent (e.g., business, organization,
affiliation), if any; and
A brief outline of your presentation.
PowerPoint presentations and other electronic materials must be
compatible with PowerPoint 2010 and other Microsoft Office 2010
formats.
Alternately, at the meetings, you may request to address ACCSH
briefly by signing the public-comment request sheet and listing the
topic(s) you will address. You also must provide 20 hard copies of any
materials, written or electronic, you want to present to ACCSH.
At his discretion, the ACCSH Chair may grant requests to address
ACCSH as time and circumstances permit.
Docket: OSHA will place comments, requests to speak, and speaker
presentations, including any personal information you provide, in the
public docket without change, and those documents may be available
online at: http://www.regulations.gov. Therefore, OSHA cautions
interested parties about submitting personal information such as Social
Security Numbers and birthdates. OSHA also places in the public docket
the meeting transcript, meeting minutes, documents presented at the
meeting, and other documents pertaining to the ACCSH and ACCSH
Workgroup meetings. These documents are available online at: http://www.regulations.gov. To read or download documents in the public docket
for these ACCSH and ACCSH Workgroup meetings, go to Docket No. OSHA-
2020-0003 at: http://www.regulations.gov. All documents in the public
docket are listed in the index; however, some documents (e.g.,
copyrighted material) are not publicly available to read or download
through http://www.regulations.gov. All submissions are available for
inspection and, when permitted, copying at the OSHA Docket Office at
the above address. For information on using http://www.regulations.gov
to make submissions or to access the docket, click on the ``Help'' tab
at the top of the homepage. Contact the OSHA Docket Office for
information about materials not available through that website and for
assistance in using the internet to locate submissions and other
documents in the docket.
Authority and Signature
Loren Sweatt, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Occupational Safety and Health, authorized the preparation of this
notice under the authority granted by 29 U.S.C. 655(b)(1) and 656(b), 5
U.S.C. App. 2, Secretary of Labor's Order No. 1-2012 (77 FR 3912), and
29 CFR part 1912.
Signed at Washington, DC, on March 12, 2020.
Loren Sweatt,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety
and Health.
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