eLCOSH : ACCSH 2001-1, exh 7, Proposed Revised Sanitation Standard

eLCOSH Editor's note:

The OSHA Advisory Committee for Construction Safety and Health (ACCSH) was authorized in the 1969 Construction Safety Act (US Code Title 40§3704, to advise OSHA on matters related to construction safety and health. It consists of five public representatives (one is normally from a State OSHA program, one from NIOSH, etc.), five labor representatives (normally from various Building Trades Unions) and five management representatives (primarily from contractor trade associations). The ACCSH often sets up work groups, which are open to the public, to draft positions on various topics or issues. These positions are then often voted on by the full ACCSH and those recommendations referred to OSHA for their consideration. These work products represent a lot of effort and thought by many individuals. They are posted here to make that work more easily accessible. This historical archive many serve as a resource to future regulators and safety advocates, so they don’t have to start from scratch. OSHA has removed some of these documents from their website which makes access difficult.

To the best of our knowledge this is a complete archive of ACCSH working group reports and recommendations. If you are aware of others, please contact us. For the most recent or future meetings, you can find information at http://www.osha.gov/doc/accsh .

This proposed revision to 29 CFR 1926.51 for construction sanitation was prepared by the Sanitation Workgroup of OSHA's Advisory Committee on Construction Occupational Safety and Health, a 15-member committee of employee, government, and employer representatives from throughout the United States. The workgroup began its review process in 1998 with interested stakeholders. Some ACCSH members believe the standard is not enforced enough (it was the fifty-second most cited standard in 2003, according to OSHA, and was cited 342 times in the five years 1999 through 2003). The standard does not require hand washing and does not require toilets for "mobile crews," such as workers constructing a pipeline. The attached draft was endorsed by a unanimous vote of the full ACCSH Committee in March 2001 that included the committee's plea for OSHA to begin the regulatory process. As of March 2005, OSHA had not begun promulgation of a revised standard.

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