OSHA Regulatory Updates and New Resources

And regulatory requirements. It isn’t enough to only be aware of OSHA’s safety standards. You also need to make sure your employees are trained and ready to adhere to their requirements. On behalf of McGriff, this opportunity to thank each of you for joining us today as we discuss OSHA regulatory updates and new resources.
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For the call today, there are just a couple of housekeeping points that I would like to share with you before we get started. This is a live session and you are in listen mode only. If you have any questions at any time during the presentation, feel free to utilize the chat box or Q&A box to type in your questions and we.
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If time doesn’t permit us to answer the questions after the presentation, we will be sure to capture them and provide the responses afterwards. Now it brings me great pleasure to introduce to you our speaker for the hour, Nick Reynolds.
As a risk control consultant for McGriff, Nick works closely with clients to evaluate risk exposure and develop strategies, processes and safety programs to reduce.
In – The safety industry and has assisted with community safety initiatives including but not limited to lost trend development, – The creation of customized accountability programs, OSHA and dot compliance, – The development of return to work programs and ergonomic.
Economic evaluations. Nick earned his bachelor’s degree in Environmental Health from – The University of Georgia. He holds – The Certified Safety Professionals CSP designation from – The Board of Certified Safety Professionals. He also earned his Performance Award in 2022. So without further ado.
I will turn it over to Nick to kick off – The presentation.

All right. Well, thank you very much, Lassoni. I appreciate it. And good afternoon, everybody or good morning depending on where you’re calling in from. We are going to take the next hour or so and well next hour and we’re going to go over.
The OSHA updates, OSHA regulatory updates and some some of the the new resources that are going to be available to y’all just to kind of go over our agenda that we’re going to.
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We’ll go over some OSHA standards and some of the updates with those. We’ll hit briefly on the the national emphasis programs that were were past five years and then and once are now and we’ll kind of wrap up where we’ll we’ll kind of talk about the OSHA most cited and some of the.
The penalty updates, there are some good news on the penalty updates. We’ll talk about those. We’ll talk about what to expect from OSHA and in the years to come in 2026 and beyond, well in the next three or four years. And then we’ll kind of go into kind of where to find updates and you know any agendas and different.
Sources that are out there. So let’s go ahead and kind of talk about the current OSHA leadership and the direction that that OSHA is going to be going. So right now OSHA has an acting assistant Secretary of Labor and her name is.
Amanda Wood, Leahow, and she has a lot of experience in the kind of in the government sector. She was nominated in 2019 by the president and confirmed by the House Senate. So she was the commissioner to the US Occupational Safety and Health.
Review Commission from 20 to 2020 to 2023 and previously she also served at the Commission as the Chief Counsel to the Chairman, James Sullivan Junior as well and she is the Acting Assistant Secretary right now and.
Sometime in September or the next month, we are kind of waiting on the new appointee from the Trump administration. The nominee is David Keeling. David Keeling comes to the OSHA.
With a lot of veteran experience in workplace safety, he spent a bulk of his time at UPS and Amazon, and we’re hoping that he’s going to take a practical approach and view on how to improve workplace safety. So good things to come from him.
And from Miss Leahow as as they kind of collaborate and work together.
And one thing we also like to kind of talk about are the different state plans that are out there with with OSHA. There are right now currently there are 22 state plans.
Government workplaces. There are also seven. You can see in the darker blue on the slide, there are seven state plans that right now are only covering the state and local workers only. So government workers, these state monitor plans, they are monitored by OSHA.
And OSHA, the federal OSHA does that set a standard or a minimum standard for preventing work-related injuries and illnesses and death and.
State plans aren’t just kind of out there on an island by themselves. The the federal OSHA does kind of approve and and monitor all the state plans. So in order to become a a state with a state plan, you’ve got to go through the approval process. Federal OSHA does also provide up to about 50% of the funding for each of those state programs.
And if you want more information on the state programs, the osha.gov website, you can see down at the bottom the osha.gov/state plans has some great information and that’s where you can find all the information on.
Each of those different plans and those individual plans.
So what to expect during this new administration? I had a unique opportunity earlier this week actually to we attended the the National Safety Conference in Denver and at this conference Amanda would lay how.
She was actually there and did kind of give us an idea of.
Expect. And under this administration, you can kind of generally expect that they’re going to be focused more on compliance rather than enforcement. And she did stress a lot of different things that they’re going to be doing.
Mainly on how important it is for OSHA to work with small businesses, they are going to start doing a lot more investment in compliance assistance to help these businesses succeed.
They will, for example, you know, they’re going to build on the success of their voluntary protection programs. I believe that they’re going to have a new one called the VPP Elite, and that’s going to be for anybody that has had a VPP certification or designation for 15 years or more.
They’re going to help develop some more pathways to help promote health and safety by increasing their outreach into the communities. And one thing that they found out too, was that not everybody really knew what the letters of interpretation were. So they’re going to increase some of the steps to promote these letters of interpretation.
Those of y’all who don’t know what a letter of interpretation is, it is folks like you wanting to get more clarification on a particular standard or particular part of the standard. And so you’ll write into OSHA and then they’ll respond back and then they’ll take those letters and those responses.
And they’ll put them into their osha.gov. One of the things that kept on getting stressed up this call was also the importance of mental health and suicide prevention. And also other things were they were going to start partnering with the dot.
And the National Transportation Safety Board to help raise awareness on transportation, transportation fatalities. Transportation fatalities, by the way, are also going to include forklifts too. And one of the things I believe that they’re also excited about is they’re called their Safety Champions program.
And that’s just going to allow sites to work with OSHA to receive evaluation and assistance. And they’ll kind of do it in three different phases. And basically they’re going to connect employers with safety and health consultants for advice and for support.
So the other thing we’re going to talk about in here is there’s going to be some rollback on some of the policies that were adopted during the Biden administration and a lot of the offices across the federal footprint are also.
Doing it staff as well. And so they’re kind of putting a little bit more increase on some of the state level importance on some of the states that do have their state-run plans.
All right.
And then moving on, so the OSHA standard updates.
Let’s go on to the next slide. So there are some issues on here, right? And so President Trump, he did issue an executive order which is starting to direct some of these executive agencies to eliminate. So they have that that 10 to one rule, right. So they have to go out there and eliminate 10 existing.
Regulations for every new one that they’re going to go in their proposed.
And so some of these that we’re talking about here are some of those deregulatory proposed changes in some of the recessions or rescissions that might be in there. One of them is going to be the general duty clause and this is going to this could significantly narrow the OSHA’s enforcement reach.
Particularly going to be in those high-risk industries where certain hazards are considered.
Working with animals, you know, doing the training and stuff like that.
I was going to be on the OSHA 300 log. At one point they were going to add an extra column on the OSHA 300 log so you can identify a musculoskeletal disorder or MSD disorder. They are looking at kind of withdrawing that one from the proposed rule.
The respiratory requirements, one of the things that they’re doing on this one is they’re looking actually to remove the medical evaluation requirements for those face filtering respirators or those loose fitting powered air purifying respirators because currently right now you know you have to have a medical evaluation.
Evaluation for those. So they’re looking to to remove that from and then part of the other things with the medical evaluations is they are actually there are certain standards out there like for example that are like chemical specific like vinyl chloride, methylene chloride, stuff like that.
Where they are looking to amend some of those standards to allow different types of respirators to be used, kind of better align them with OSHA’s respiratory standards. So they’re looking to kind of make that a little bit better alignment.
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Some of the other things, construction illumination. Right now the OSHA’s construction standard kind of requires construction areas like aisles, stamps, ramps, runways, corridors and stuff like that to have lighted areas.
Either with natural light or artificial light, but they’re kind of looking at removing that one because that said, it really doesn’t reduce any significant risk to the workers. The COVID-19 and record keeping one in the healthcare settings, they’re looking at proposing to remove the COVID-19 emergency temporary standard.
Which includes record keeping and reporting visions that are kind of still in effect from from 2020 to 2021. And then for the farm labor enforcement, they’re proposing a removal of this because the regulations are going to limit the department’s discretion.
To prevent and coordinate better with the Margaret, Margaret, migrant farm workers. Sorry.
All right. And the one that I’m sure gets most attention right now is the heat safety regulation that is out there. I did attend a hour long OSHA updates class during the conference that I was at earlier this week.
And they’re still kind of moving forward with it. It’s still very unclear how this is going to unfold. It could be as how it is written right now. They could change it to make it more of a one-size-fits-all depending on, you know, state or area of the country.
They could just keep it with the national emphasis program that we’ll talk about in a minute. Interestingly enough, they did have their open comment period from June 16th through July 2nd. I got an opportunity to sit down and listen to some of those.
They got 43,000 public comments and if you want to read them, they’re all online. You can go to the osha.gov and osha.gov forward slash logs hyphen regs.
And you can read all the public comments that are in there. They did extend the comment period until the end of this month. So there is still time if you wanted to voice your opinion. In both of the meetings that I had with them, they were very adamant about wanting to hear from the public.
And and how you think it’s going to either help or impact your business?
If it does go into place as is, there are a few things that they’re going to require in there. Again, this is if it goes in as is. For example, you’re going to have to have a a formal heat safety plan.
It’s going to include how are you going to monitor the heat and academization period, work, rest schedules, a buddy system, and then protocols for administering first aid or how you’re going to handle an emergency. They’ll require you to have somebody that will oversee this heat safety program.
Either somebody that you’ve already trained or somebody that you’re going to train. They’re going to require specific training that you’re going to have to do at time of hire and then, you know, ongoing training topics could include, you know, signs and symptoms of heat related illnesses as well as.
For state measures responding to the different ones, the one that’s going to have the biggest impact probably is going to be the academization period.
And this is going to be not just for new workers coming to work for you. This is also going to be if you have an employee that takes a week-long break, you know, or a vacation or goes on a holiday and they come back to work and they’re going to do kind of like it’s what they call their 20% rule, right. So you’re going to begin on the first day with a 20.
30% exposure and then each day you’re going to increase that exposure by 20% and depending on certain things, it could take up to a couple weeks to get an employee fully acclimated. Other things you got to have in there is make sure that you’re adjusting your work schedules based on the heat index.
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Or the heat in those industries. And then you have to allow for frequent breaks. They’re going to say that the breaks have to be long enough to allow the workers to time to recover from the heat, given, you know, the temperature, the humidity, what type of activities were they doing?
And any other conditions that they they might face. And then you also have to go in there and identify those heat hazards. So what are the different areas? What are the different risks of heat illnesses due to high temperature, humidity, exposure to sun or any other thermal exposures that you may have or your work demand?
How much clothing or PPE that employees might be wearing, and even personal risk factors as well.
They’re going to require frequent temperature checks before the space before the work’s going to begin. There is a on the previous slide you saw that heat related app. There’s a it’s called an OSHA NIOSH safe heat safety tool app and it’s a free download and you can actually go in there.
And kind of project out the heat index throughout the day and it’s it’s sites.
That’s for outdoor work. And then for indoor work, you’re going to use a combination of your thermometers and hybrid meters and to identify the heat indexes in the work areas. They’re going to have you monitor heat illness systems.
You’re going to have to establish some sort of monitoring system for the signs and symptoms of heat illnesses. It is. You’re going to have to train the workers on how to monitor each other as well, have a designated break area and encourage them hydration.
You have to make sure that they have the proper attire when they’re working out there in the heat, you know, for example, like hats or loose fitting clothing, breathable clothing, etcetera. And then the last one is you got to have some sort of emergency plan for how you’re going to deal and how you’re going to manage the site, how you’re going to.
To communicate it to supervisors and workers.
Now this is federal. There are several states that already have a heat safety standard in place. That’s California, Colorado, Minnesota, Oregon, Washington, Maryland and Nevada. They all have some type of heat safety standard already in place.
It’s gonna vary depending on each state, but usually there are.
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And allowing employees to get acclimated to high, high, high temperatures.
All right. Another one of the things that they’re looking at is the construction PPE standard and they’re going to align the PPE standard with the general industry and by that, so as of January 13th of 2025.
OSHA’s construction standard on PPE is going to require employees to provide PPE that properly fits.
This includes gloves, hard hats, safety glasses, respirators and hearing protection.
You’re gonna have to select it based on that individual worker size and body shape.
Another one that they’re looking at reviewing is the worker walk around rule. This basically allows third parties, which includes union officials, to accompany an OSHA.
An OSHA compliance officer and during workplace inspections. You can imagine that this kind of did not get very good feedback. There is a pending lawsuit right now in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas.
And based on the results of that one, it could either block or vacate this rule entirely. And there are several business groups out there that are currently arguing that the rule does exceed OSHA’s authority and conflicts with the National Labor Relations Act. So this one could kind of go away, but.
Time will tell on this one.
Another one that they’re also looking at is the hazard communication.
Just some changes that date back to the ones that were done in the years before. As of October 9th of 2024, they did go in and just kind of make some minor corrections to the final rule. It was just.
Wording and some grammatical area or or grammatical things in there. They are looking to improve the the labeling by that you know some of the precautionary statements that are in there and they also incorporated some.
New hazard classes, for example, now they added a new class called desensitized explosives. They’re adding aerosols in there and chemicals under pressure, and then some of the ones that they’re looking to modify or expand are flammable gases and combustible dusts.
They did add a a formal definition to combustible dust to address these specific hazards.
And then there are some future things in 2026 that’s going to pertain to chemical manufacturers and importers. So by January of 2026, these.
These.
You’re going to actually have to go in and make sure that the labels are updated and their safety data sheets are updated as well. And then by July of 26, the employers have got to go in there and update your labeling and hazard communication program.
Any training for any of these substances that that they came on right, the identified physical and health hazards that come out in the precautionary statements.
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And like we said, they’re they’re trying to do a lot of good outreach programs and one of them is putting out.
Flash guidance and our flash guidance that you could find on on osha.gov.
It has a long form, long form content guide for employers and then it actually provides 3 quick reference materials that employees can also use out in the field. And these quick references and and these guides, they’re going to clarify some of the rules.
That kind of lead to some of the misconceptions of the injuries and fatalities. For example, you know, clarifying that de energized equipment that’s not locked out or tagged out is energized work requiring an energized work permit in appropriate PPE.
It’s also going to highlight highlight the fact that low voltage can and does ignite flammable clothing and then it’s going to emphasize the importance of electricians of wearing the the appropriate PPE.
And protective apparel whenever depending on their approach boundaries.
And if all this information is can be found on the osha.gov, it’s osha.gov forward slash electrical forward slash flash hyphen hazards and we can give you all these links and all that stuff at the end of this too.
Good.
Another one that is coming, it’s not necessarily an OSHA one yet, but it is NIOSH. NIOSH is the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and they have actually came out and in 2020, January of 2025, they provided an update of their policy.
And keep in mind, NIOSH doesn’t directly regulate fit testing requirements, right? But it does come out and recommend that employers use individual quantitative methods now to assess the protection from hearing protection devices. This is going to replace those those older methods of.
That we used to do of the D rating, you know the the NRR reduction rates, it’s really driven by a lot of the new technology and advancements and some of the research that’s showing that these D rating methods, you know we really can’t go in there and assess the proper fit of the hearing protection.
And the more definitive way of doing this is using these quantitative fit testing measures.
And expect OSHA to kind of follow NIOSH as well, because OSHA does kind of tend to reach out to other organizations such as NIOSH for help.
With workplace safety.
Just a brief update too on if there’s anybody on the call or on this team or it’s going to be listened to it later on that’s out in California. Just wanted to kind of give you an idea of some updates that’s coming down the pipeline for for Cal OSHA in 2025.
One of them is they’re revising their heat standard. They’re going to add an ultra high heat provision to the standard that’s going to actually require employers to distribute their heat heat illness prevention plans to employees.
They did kind of put a proposal out in May of this year to revise the both outdoor and indoor heat injury or illness prevention regulations and these changes they’re going to include new requirements for.
Worker acclimatization, training, distribution of these of these plans, you know, when you hire a new employee and any ongoing training and they’re going to say it’s got to be done every year. Another one that they’re adding is the wildfire and smoke.
Basically here they are just looking to lower the air quality thresholds for mandatory respirator air protection. It’s going to go down from 500 down to 301 first aid kits.
This is actually a really positive one. Oh, I’m sorry. Walking working surfaces, Cal OSHA, they are kind of going in there and working on the updates to this regulation. There is an advisory committee meetings are being scheduled for March and October of this year. So we’ve already had one in March and we got another one for.
Cal OSHA coming up in October of this year and they’re looking at revising the draft of the regulation. The first aid kits, they’re actually looking to simplify the first aid kits. It looks like that.
Cal OSHA used to have the sole, used to have an official to approve the first aid kits and now they’re just going to allow other national standards like ANSI to allow them to require what they need to keep in their first aid kits and a this proposal it’s expected to.
Go into a public hearing or it was it went back in the public hearing in June.
Autonomous tractors, they’re actually looking to reform this to where it says historically you had to have a person physically behind the the wheel of this tractor. Now they’re actually going to consider regular or reforming the regulations to allow autonomous tractors.
During agricultural operations, workplace violence draft is going to expand the scope of the plan to uncover the employers with low head counts or lower head counts. It’s going to clarify definitions, specify how reports of violence must be accepted.
And expands on the communication requirements and update it’s in the record keeping as well. Silica, the silica exposure. This actually went into effect in January of this year and they have reduced the permissible exposure limit from 50 milligrams, 50 milligrams per meters.
Cube down to 10 milligrams per meters cubed and this is over an 8 hour period and then there.
Lower the action level for this from 30 milligrams per meters cubed down to two milligrams per meters cubed.
The lead exposure one, they’re just looking to make revisions to the standard. It took effect in January of this year and it’s going to establish significantly lower air and blood lead thresholds for testing and the removal from the workplace.
The fall protection one, they just updated it in July and.
They updated the fall protection for residential framing and roofing, and it’s going to require them to have fall protection at six feet or higher.
COVID they have they expired. They officially expired on February 3rd of 2025. So this means that it will no longer be required to report cases.
Or notify employers of exposure, or even mandate the isolation quarantine employees.
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On to the national emphasis programs. Now there, there’s a handful of these that were kind of already in place. So over the last five years, here’s the ones that have been done in the last five years. They did just extend the heat one.
And this was actually they extended this through April 8th of 2026.
So the heat NEP has been pushed out through 2026. The other one that’s kind of on there is the warehousing and distribution center operations. They’re going to focus on the hazards common to these industries, for example.
Forklifts, material handling and storage, walking and working surfaces, means of egress and and even Fire Protection. There are some what we call these OSHA instruction sheets that are out there, these OSHA instruction.
Worksheets. They’re out there for compliance officers and for regional offices. They’re to be used when they go out in and inspect a facility. It’s going to provide them instructions on how to select the industries for for inspections, how to conduct tests if there’s any tests that need to be taken.
And then what should be inspected? What needs to be reviewed?
And then it’s also going to provide guidance for the compliance officers and the area managers in the area offices on how to issue citations. These are available to the public, right? So you can actually go out there and look at these. Again, if you haven’t been on the OSHA website in a while, it is a wealth.
Of information that is out there for the public on this, the new one that is out.
Is on hazardous machinery and this is really going to be aimed at reducing or eliminating Uh amputations in the manufacturing industries.
The inspections that are going to be initiated under this NEP could be programmed, could be planned, or it could be a partial safety inspection.
The scope of all these inspections.
And practices at the establishment concerning the operation, servicing, maintenance, control of hazardous energy, machine guarding, and of all the equipment that could potentially present imputation hazards to your workers.
And this inspection scope, it can actually be expanded if there is evidence. By evidence we mean that there’s injuries that you may have when you when you turn your OSHA 300 logs in on your 300 or 30 ones.
Employee state.
I can do observation, right? So the scope, it can be extended out there if they see any of these things.
And again, you can find this ocean instruction on the ocean Gov page.
OK. Each year, right, we all know this. Each year OSHA kind of puts out their most cited and they put out their penalty updates and so this is.
OSHA’s fiscal year of 2024 fiscal year.
The fiscal year runs from 10/1 to 9:30, right? So we are fixing to come to an end of the fiscal year 2024 and the fiscal year 2025 is is about to start.
And to date, I should yeah to date the fiscal year 2025. I I do have some updates on some fiscal year for 2025 enforcement data. So to date, so for 10/1/2024.
To now, OSHA has conducted 26,410 inspections. Of those 26,000 plus citations or inspections, they issued 35,000 and 84 total violations.
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Percent of those in those inspections that are done were programmed, 53% were unprogrammed.
It is a catastrophic event or a fatality or an OSHA complaint. OK, 52% of the inspections were done in construction industry and then 76% of the total violations were either a serious or willful or repeat.
And then I found this one interesting. Um, the average.
For serious violation in the 2025 fiscal year was 5097, so and these right here.
Top 1060 fall protection is #1 pass communication and ladders round out the top three.
And you can see.
the standards that are applied to it.
And in the number of violations that were issued for each one of those citations or each one of those standards.
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Which is 2025 penalty levels. It’s this is no news to to us in in the same increase every year and they increase every year based on inflation. So you can kind of see.
Posting requirements in a series of violations, they went up from 16,131 to 16,500, failure of Bates went up to 16550 and then willful and repeat went up to 165, the maximum 165514 thousand so.
Just to kind of give you some ideas if you’re not new to this, some common posting violations, like for example you don’t display the OSHA poster or you’re not posting.
And other than serious violation, these are your administrative violations, like paperwork errors, minor things, right? They have a direct relationship to safety, but they’re unlikely to cause death or serious harm to an employee.
And then you have your serious violations. These are the ones that you know the probability of death or or serious physical harm could result from this, especially if you knew about it or you should have known about it and that they could cause serious injury.
And then you have your failure to abates these you can see that it’s per day, right? So you’ll have a 16,550 Max penalty per day until the violation is.
Corrected. And they usually do this to kind of incentivize the time of the correction of the hazards to make sure that employers stay on top of compliance. And then you have your willful violations. Your willful violations, basically you knew.
Of a hazard or a violation, but you intentionally disregarded any OSHA standards. And then the repeated ones, you know, occurs when you’ve already been cited.
The same or potentially similar violation within the past five years and to them this is been to you know most of the folks this kind of indicates of non compliance. So they it’s been waiting a lot more heavily.
And again, you can find this information osha.gov forward slash penalties and and that’s in there. Now I actually do have some good news on the penalties and the the good news is.
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Going on what the Assistant Secretary mentioned on the on at the meeting earlier this week, they have small businesses in mind and they really want to improve their relationship with these small businesses and one of the ways that they’re going to do that is.
They’re going to start having some penalty reductions for small business. So effective July 14th of of this year, they’ve kind of gone in and adjusted their penalty reductions for the small employers. It’s going to make it easier for employers, you know, for the small businesses to be able to go out there and.
Best in finding and fixing the hazards as well as going out there and doing anything that employers need to do to enhance their.
Programs, for example, which expanded their size of.
So for serious violations, you’re going to have up to a 70% reduction and this is going to be up to 25 employees. Previously it was only at 10 employees, so now they’ve kind of expanded that it up to 25 employees and then for your willful and serious violations or for your willfully serious violation.
They’ve got an 80% reduction from employers with 20 or fewer employees and that 20 went up from 10 the previous year.
The other things that they are doing and they have implemented in there is a fifth, an additional additional 15% reduction for good faith. So for example, if you’re walking around with the compliance officer and you do a quick fix there on site, that would be an additional 15%.
They also have an additional 20% reduction for any employers that have had no history of of no violations or anything like that or history with OSHA within the last five years. So there’s some or some opportunities for some significant penalty reductions when it.
Comes to OSHA going out there and issuing citations and violations. So all great contestants on that one.
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So what to expect in in 26?
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Kind of more of what we talked about a little bit earlier in the presentation. Yes, they are. They’re looking at going in there and doing a reduction in force. So a lot of the offices I know here in Georgia, we’re already down 7 to 8 compliance officers just in our area alone and they’re doing this across the board.
And they’re going to keep on doing this over.
Four years.
And this is obviously, you know that now that they’re having a reduction of staff, they’re not going to be able to get out and and visit more, right?
So you could start seeing some reduction in some inspection activity and I think that’s going to have them focus more on compliance assistance. Right now they’re still going to do, you know, the targeted enforcement, they’re still going to go after as Miss Leah Hall, Leah Hall mentioned earlier, they’re going to go after the bad apples.
Right. They’re still gonna do that, but they are gonna have reduction in training.
One of the big pushes that that I like seeing is they’re going to have more of a focus on mental health awareness, psychological safety.
And importantly suicide prevention, the the statistics for suicides across our workforce was was pretty high and one of the highest industries out there is construction. It was I think construction had 50%.
Of of the highest suicide rates in there, they’re going to spend a lot more time on this safety champion program. Again, that’s going to put employers in a better touch communication with health and safety consultants out there.
And then another thing that I really like that they’re doing is they’re they’re looking at how do we help reduce motor vehicle fatalities. You know, as far as fatalities go and as far as fatalities in the workplace, motor vehicle fatalities are are the number one.
Cause of fatalities across the board, and so they’re partnering with the likes of DFT.
And NTSB to drive home.
How important it is to make sure that we’re having a reduction in these fatalities, so hopefully more to come on now and as as the years pass.
If you are wanting to find more information other than what we have kind of talked about here today, there’s a lot of different resources out there for you. A shameless plug is, you know, the McGriff Resource Net for those of y’all who are on the call if you.
Are not familiar with McGriff Resource Net. It is a resource that is provided to you as a McGriff client at no additional charge and it has great information in it, including compliance updates and there’s sample policies and sample procedures that are in there. There’s training resources.
So there’s a lot of wealth of information that can be found in that resource net.
If you do not have access to the McGriff resource net, please please reach out to your insurance agent for more information and how to get the complimentary access to that website. And then the other great resource on where to find information on this is the osha.gov/laws.
Hyphen regs and at the end of that presentation that I was attended for the OSHA updates with some area directors in the National Safety Council conference, they actually pointed to this website.
And you can actually find any updated information on any of the regulatory agendas that they’re talking about in that website. So there is.
Knowledge. There’s a website as well.
All right.
And then another great area to get information is the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. They do have a website for this. This website, it actually provides information on federal regulatory actions and acts.
It acts as a central hub for the public to kind of go in there and be able to track and monitor our government’s regulatory activities. So if you wanted to see what was going on with confined space safety, you can actually go into that website and it will tell you what the latest.
Information is on that one.
All right, and some additional resources. Again, the McGriff Resources net. You can also reach out to the ocean.gov website. That’s always a good one if you are looking for if you are a data-driven person, right? You can find more information.
On incidences, injuries and fatalities and non-fatality injuries, you can find that on bls.gov. There’s actually to a comparison tool, so you can kind of compare you to other people in your SIC or NAIC.
Yes.
OSHA does if you wanted to see.
The standards for your NAICS code. There’s actually a way to do that by going to the osha.gov website at osha.gov forward slash data. You can find out specific information for your industry, right? The most cited ones for your industry if you want to find out more.
More information on the National Emphasis Program, right? Again, osha.gov, they have great information on there on. That’s where you’re going to get those instruction sheets, how the compliance officers go out and select and inspect your facilities based on those.
National Emphasis Program.
And then, like we said, the register info, you can find that on reginfo.gov.
And there’s also a way to identify the proposed rules that are open for comment. So if you want to add in your additional comment, you can go to that regulations.gov website for information on that and actually how to make your comments yourselves.
All right.
Are there any questions?

Awesome. Thank you so much, Nick. Yeah, as a matter of fact, you did such an excellent job. The only question that has come up so far was whether or not everyone will receive the presentation slides. And that answer is yes, everyone will receive the presentation slides as well as the recording afterwards.

Sure, there might be. You’re welcome.

So even if you don’t have any questions right now, within the slides you’ll see the wealth of resources that he’s leaving and providing where you can go out on the website and gather that information also. So again, thank you Nicholas for that wonderful job, for all of that wonderful information.
And I do have a question that did that did just pop up. Do you have any updates to fit testing for N ninety-fives in healthcare?

That is going to be the one of the ones that they were going to deregulate. They were going to take out those N 90 fives and those face filtering respirators. They’re looking at removing that for doing the fit testing on those. So more to come on that one.

Mhm.
OK. All right. Now another question. When did you say the heat standards are changing?

It is right now we do not know. We asked that very question to to some of the area directors that we’re not meeting and we were not provided with an answer. It is they’re still in the the period of open comment once they do the open comment period and once that closes then they’ve got to go in.
There and review all of the open comments, so it could be sometime next year before we see any regulation coming down on the heat safety standard.

Awesome.
Just double checking, making sure. So that’s all the questions we have so far. So again, thank you so much. Everyone will receive a copy of the presentation slots as well as the recording. You’ll have Nick’s contact information. So afterwards, if you do come across some additional questions, I’m sure he will not mind you reaching out to him.
But on behalf of McGriff, thank you again for your time and we hope you have a wonderful rest of your day.

Bye everybody.

Bye, bye.