제 목 : Using Hazard Data : Delayed
일 자 : 1997년 08월
제공처 : Safety ＆ health(OSHA UPDATE)
Picking itself up and starting all over again, OSHA is collecting 1996
Data to help it spot the biggest industry safety hazards to help target
its regulatory efforts.
The agency was dealt a datagathering setback when a federal judge ruled
on Jan. 31 that it had improperly collected l995 illness and injury infor-
matron from 80,000 businesses last year. Acting on a 1awsuit by the Ameri-
can Trucking Associations lnc., the judge ruled that OSHA didn't have rules
for collecting that information.
Now OSHA has data collection rules and will apply them to a survey of
l996 data, and then to enforcement, especially for its cooperative comp-
liance program. This will enable OSHA to more effectively find companies
with a high level of safety or health hazards and ask them to work with
the agency to fix the problems, officials say.
The judge rejected ATA's request that the order OSHA to destroy the
l995 data, noting that the agency pledged that no enforcement action would
result from that year's information. ATA also has "serious concerns" about
the new rules, and asked OSHA to reconsider them, says Linda Mounts,
an ATA vice president.
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