During fiscal year 2002 (October 1, 2001 through September 30, 2002), federal OSHA issued 99,949 citations for a total proposed penalty of $106,539,194. Seventeen general industry standards had 50 or more citations issued for violations of employee training/required information. Listed below are the top ten most cited general industry standards regarding training/information requirements. Also included are number of training/information citations issued, subparagraph cited, and proposed penalty.
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Standard
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Number of citations
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Subparagraph cited and (# of citations)
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Proposed Penalty
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1. Hazard communication,
1910.1200 |
2,073 |
(h): Information, Training - General (759);
(h)(1): Information, Training - Specific (988);
(h)(2): Information provided to employees (123);
(h)(3): Training content (203)
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$ 680,627 |
2. Powered industrial trucks,
1910.178 |
1,369 |
(l): Operator Training (275);
(l)(1): Training – Safe operation (532);
(l)(2): Training – Program Implementation (84);
(l)(3): Training Program – Content (64);
(l)(4): Refresher Training and evaluation (100);
(l)(5): Avoidance of duplicative training (3);
(l)(6): Certification (309);
(l)(7): Dates for training (2) |
$ 1,291,342
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3. Respiratory protection,
1910.134 |
945 |
(c)(2): Information for voluntary users (480);
(k)(1): Employees demonstrate knowledge (238);
(k)(2): Training understandable to employee (2);
(k)(3): Training prior to using respirator (91);
(k)(4): Previous training for new employees (1);
(k)(5): Annual retraining (19);
(k)(6): Employee access to Appendix D (114) |
$ 144,076
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4. Lockout/tagout,
1910.147 |
741 |
(c)(7): Training for Affected, Authorized and Other employees (741) |
$ 796,245 |
5. Fire extinguishers,
1910.157 |
587 |
(g)(1): Training in incipient stage fires (273);
(g)(2): Initial and annual training (277);
(g)(3): Designated personnel (11);
(g)(4): Annual training – designated personnel (26) |
$ 289,973
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6. Bloodborne pathogens,
1910.1030 |
312 |
(g)(2): Employees with occupational exposure (312) |
$ 213,911 |
7. PPE,
1910.132 |
263 |
(f)(1): Training for employees using PPE (174);
(f)(2): Demonstrate understanding of training (3);
(f)(3): Retraining (2);
(f)(4): Written certification of training (84) |
$ 64,800
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8. Logging operations,
1910.266 |
240 |
(i)(1): Training for all employees (6);
(i)(2): Training frequency (4);
(i)(3): Training content (77);
(i)(5): Portability of training (7);
(i)(6): Supervision of new employees(2);
(i)(7): First aid training for all employees (75);
(i)(8): Training by designated person (1);
(i)(10): Certification of training (57);
(i)(11): Monthly safety and health meetings (11) |
$ 86,975
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9. Lead,
1910.1025 |
170 |
(l)(1): Information – Appendices A and B (150);
(l)(2): Information and training materials (20) |
$ 79,595
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10. Occupational noise exposure,
1910.95 |
145 |
(k)(1): Train employees > 85 decibels TWA (98);
(k)(2): Annual retraining (30);
(k)(3): Training content (17) |
$ 14,000
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