The standards will require covered employers to monitor employee exposure to respirable crystalline silica, to establish either regulated areas or a written access control plan, to conduct medical surveillance, and to establish and maintain accurate records of employee exposure to respirable crystalline silica and employee medical records. These records will be used by employers, workers, physicians and the Government to ensure that workers are not being harmed by exposure to respirable crystalline silica.
US Code:
29 USC 657
Name of Law: Occupational Safety and Health Act
US Code:
29 USC 651
Name of Law: Occupational Safety and Health Act
US Code:
29 USC 655
Name of Law: Occupational Safety and Health Act
The agency requests approval for an adjustment increase of 349,902 burden hours (from 12,118,364 to 12,468,266).
The requested adjustment increase is associated with the agencyâs correction of several administrative errors in the previous ICR. Specifically, the adjustment would include additional burden hours for the development and updating of the written exposure control plan associated with medium-sized general industry establishments. In addition, the adjustment would add additional burden hours for employers to provide information to a physician or other licensed health care professional in association with employee periodic medical examinations. These burden hours were displayed in the previous ICR spreadsheets as costs incurred after the initial year of standard implementation but were not included in the burden hour totals in the previous ICR. The adjustment also would add additional burden hours for managers to ensure worker receipt of the PLHCP and specialistâs written medical report and distribute the PLHCP and specialistâs written medical opinion to workers and the employer in association with employee initial, periodic, and additional medical examinations. There were also minor burden hour adjustments associated with the agencyâs use of a different burden hour time rounding method in the calculations.
In addition, to better align the ICR with ROCIS fields and for PRA purposes only, the agency adjusted the previous ICR time estimate, burden hours and costs for overall initial, periodic and specialist medical examinations to separate out the burden hours and costs associated with an employerâs employee time and cost to wait for the PLHCP to complete medical surveillance forms, including the time to provide the forms to the employee and opinion to the employer, during the medical examination. This resulted in a substantial increase in responses associated with the forms.
The agency also requests an adjustment decrease of $351 for operation and maintenance costs (from $393,789,901 to $393,789,550) to adjust for administrative errors and to maintain all other previously approved operation and maintenance costs.
In addition, to better align the ICR with ROCIS fields and for PRA purposes only, the agency adjusted the operation and maintenance cost estimates for overall initial, periodic and specialist medical examinations to separate out the cost for a PLHCP to complete medical surveillance forms, and costs to provide the forms to the worker and employer respectively, during medical examination. This resulted in a substantial increase in responses associated with the forms.
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Saleda Perryman
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On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
Respirable Crystalline Silica Standards for General Industry, Maritime (29 CFR 1910.1053) and Construction (29 CFR 1926.1053) - Sample Forms in Appendix B of the CFR