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Comments and submissions are
posted without change at http://
www.regulations.gov. Therefore, OSHA
cautions comments about submitting
personal information such as Social
security numbers and date of birth.
Although all submissions are listed in
the http://www.regulations.gov index,
some information (e.g., copyrighted
material) is not publically available to
read or download through this Web site.
All submissions, including copyrighted
material, are available for inspection
and copying at the OSHA Docket Office.
Information on using the http://
www.regulations.gov Web site to submit
comments and Access the docket is
available at the Web site’s ‘‘User Tips’’
link.
Contact the OSHA Docket Office for
information about materials not
available through the Web site, and for
assistance in using the Internet to locate
docket submissions.
V. Authority and Signature
Dorothy Dougherty, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Labor for Occupational
Safety and Health, directed the
preparation of this notice. The authority
for this notice is the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3506
et seq.) and Secretary of Labor’s Order
No. 1–2012 (77 FR 3912).
Signed at Washington, DC, on April 13,
2017.
Dorothy Dougherty,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Occupational Safety and Health.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2010–0056]

Notice of Alleged Safety and Health
Hazard (Form OSHA–7); Extension of
the Office of Management and
Budget’s (OMB) Approval of
Collections of Information
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA), Labor.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
AGENCY:

OSHA solicits public
comments concerning its proposal to
extend the Office of Management and
Budget’s (OMB) approval of the
collections of information contained in
the OSHA–7 Form.
DATES: Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent or received) by June
23, 2017.
ADDRESSES:

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Electronically: You may submit
comments and attachments
electronically at http://
www.regulations.gov, which is the
Federal eRulemaking Portal. Follow the
instructions online for submitting
comments.
Facsimile: If your comments,
including attachments, are not longer
than 10 pages, you may fax them to the
OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693–1648.
Mail, hand delivery, express mail,
messenger, or courier service: When
using this method, you must submit a
copy of your comments and attachments
to the OSHA Docket Office, Docket No.
OSHA–2010–0056, U.S. Department of
Labor, Occupational Safety and Health
Administration, Room N–2625, 200
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20210. Deliveries (hand, express
mail, messenger, and courier service)
are accepted during the Department of
Labor’s and Docket Office’s normal
business hours, 8:15 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.,
e.t.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the Agency name and the OSHA
docket number (OSHA–2010–0056) for
the Information Collection Request
(ICR). All comments, including any
personal information you provide, are
placed in the public docket without
change, and may be made available
online at http://www.regulations.gov.
For further information on submitting
comments,see the ‘‘Public
Participation’’ heading in the section of
this notice titled SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION.
Docket: To read or download
comments or other material in the
docket, go to http://regulations.gov or
the OSHA Docket Office at the address
above. All documents in the docket
(including this Federal Register notice)
are listed in the http://
www.regulations.gov index; however,
some information (e.g., copyrighted
material) is not publicly available to
read or download from the Web site. All
submissions, including copyrighted
material, are available for inspection
and copying at the OSHA Docket Office.
You may contact Theda Kenney at the
address below to obtain a copy of the
ICR.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Theda Kenney or Todd Owen,
Directorate of Standards and Guidance,
OSHA, U.S. Department of Labor, Room
N–3609, 200 Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20210; telephone (202)
693–2222.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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I. Background
The Department of Labor, as part of its
continuing effort to reduce paperwork
and respondent (i.e., employees filing
occupational safety or health
complaints) burden, conducts a
preclearance consultation program to
provide the public with an opportunity
to comment on proposed and
collections of information in accord
with the Paperwork Reduction Act
(PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). This
program ensures that information is in
the desired format, reporting burden
(time and costs) is minimal, collection
instruments are clearly understood, and
OSHA’s estimate of the information
collection burden is accurate. The
Occupational Safety and Health Act of
1970 (the OSH Act) (29 U.S.C. 651 et
seq.) authorizes information collection
by employers as necessary or
appropriate for enforcement of the OSH
Act or for developing information
regarding the causes and prevention of
occupational injuries, illnesses, and
accidents (29 U.S.C. 657). The OSH Act
also requires that OSHA obtain such
information with minimum burden
upon employers, especially those
operating small businesses, and to
reduce to the maximum extent feasible
unnecessary duplication of efforts in
obtaining information (29 U.S.C. 657).
Under paragraphs (a) and (c) of 29
CFR 1903.11 (‘‘Complaints by
employees’’), employees and their
representatives may notify the OSHA
area director or an OSHA compliance
officer of safety and health hazards
regulated by the Agency that they
believe exist in their workplaces at any
time. These provisions state further that
this notification must be in writing and
‘‘shall set forth with reasonable
particularity the grounds for the notice,
and shall be signed by the employee or
representative of the employee.’’
In addition to providing specific
hazard information to the Agency,
paragraph (a) permits employees/
employee representatives to request an
inspection of the workplace. Paragraph
(c) also addresses situations in which
employees/employee representatives
may provide the information directly to
the OSHA compliance officer during an
inspection. An employer’s former
employees may also submit complaints
to the Agency.
To address the requirements of
paragraphs (a) and (c), especially the
requirement that the information be in
writing, the Agency developed the
OSHA–7 Form; this form standardized
and simplified the hazard reporting
process. For paragraph (a), they may
complete an OSHA–7 Form obtained

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from the Agency’s Web site and then
send it to OSHA online, or deliver a
hardcopy of the form to the OSHA area
office by mail or facsimile, or by hand.
They may also write a letter containing
the information and hand deliver it to
the area office, or send it by mail or
facsimile. In addition, they may provide
the information orally to the OSHA area
office or another party (e.g., a federal
safety and health committee for federal
employees), in which case the area
office or other party completes the hard
copy version of the form. For the typical
situation addressed by paragraph (c), an
employee/employee representative
informs an OSHA compliance officer
orally of the alleged hazard during an
inspection, and the compliance officer
then completes the hard copy version of
the OSHA–7 Form; occasionally, the
employee/employee representative
provides the compliance officer with the
information on the hard copy version of
the OSHA–7 Form.
The information on the hard copy
version of the OSHA–7 Form includes
information about the employer and
alleged hazards, including: The
establishment’s name; the site’s address
and telephone and facsimile numbers;
the name and telephone number of the
management official; the type of
business; a description and the specific
location of the hazards, including the
approximate number of employees
exposed or threatened by the hazards;
and whether or not the employee/
employee representative informed
another government agency about the
hazards (and the name of the agency if
so informed).
Additional information on the hard
copy version of the form concerns the
complainant, including: Whether or not
the complainant is an employee or an
employee representative, or for
information provided orally, a member
of a federal safety and health committee
or another party (with space to specify
the party); the complainant’s name,
telephone number, and address; and the
complainant’s signature attesting that
they believe a violation of an OSHA
standard exists at the named
establishment; and the date of the
signature. An employee representative
must also provide the name of the
organization they represent and their
title.
The information contained in the
online version of the OSHA–7 Form is
similar to the hard copy version.
However, the online version requests
the complainant’s email address, and
does not ask for the site’s facsimile
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The Agency uses the information
collected on the OSHA–7 Form to
determine whether reasonable grounds
exist to conduct an inspection of the
workplace. The description of the
hazards, including the number of
exposed employees, allows the Agency
to assess the severity of the hazards and
the need to expedite the inspection. The
completed form also provides the
employer with notice of the complaint
and may serve as the basis for obtaining
a search warrant if the employer denies
the Agency access to the workplace.
II. Special Issues for Comment
OSHA has a particular interest in
comments on the following issues:
• Whether the proposed collections of
information are necessary for proper
performance of the Agency’s functions,
including whether the information is
useful;
• The accuracy of OSHA’s estimate of
the burden (time and costs) of the
collections of information, including the
validity of the methodology and
assumptions used;
• The quality, utility, and clarity of
the information collected; and
• Ways to minimize the burden on
employers who must comply—for
example, by using automated or other
technological information collection
and transmission techniques.
III. Proposed Actions
OSHA is requesting that OMB extend
its approval of the collections of
information relating to the OSHA–7
Form. The Agency is requesting an
increase in burden hours from 13,659 to
19,258 (a total increase of 5,599 burden
hours). The difference is the result of an
overall increase in complaints received
annually from 50,641 complaints
estimated in the previous ICR to 70,976
complaints. There was also an increase
in operation and maintenance costs
from $532 to $701. The increase
occurred due to an increase in the
estimated number of written OSHA–7
forms received, from 1,208 to 1,430
forms. The Agency will summarize the
comments submitted in response to this
notice and will include this summary in
the request to OMB to extend the
approval of the collections of
information.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Title: Notice of Alleged Safety and
Health Hazards (Form OSHA–7).
OMB Control Number: 1218–0064.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
Number of Responses: 70,976.
Frequency of Responses: On occasion.
Average Time per Response: Varies.

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Estimated Total Burden Hours:
19,258.
Estimated Cost (Operation and
Maintenance): $701.
IV. Public Participation—Submission of
Comments on this Notice and Internet
Access to Comments and Submissions
You may submit comments in
response to this document as follows:
(1) Electronically at http://
regulations.gov, which is the Federal
eRulemaking Portal; (2) by facsimile; or
(3) by hard copy. All comments,
attachments, and other material must
identify the Agency name and the
OSHA docket number for this ICR
(Docket No. OSHA–2010–0056). You
may supplement electronic submissions
by uploading document files
electronically. If you wish to mail
additional materials in reference to an
electronic or facsimile submission, you
must submit them to the OSHA Docket
Office (see the section of this notice
titled ADDRESSES). The additional
materials must clearly identify your
electronic comments by your name,
date, and the docket number so the
Agency can attach them to your
comments.
Because of security procedures, the
use of regular mail may cause a
significant delay in the receipt of
comments. For information about
security procedures concerning the
delivery of materials by hand, express
delivery, messenger, or courier service,
please contact the OSHA Docket Office
at (202) 693–2350, (TTY (877) 889–
5627).
Comments and submissions are
posted without change at http://
www.regulations.gov. Therefore, OSHA
cautions commenters about submitting
personal information such as their
social security number and date of birth.
Although all submissions are listed in
the http://www.regulations.gov index,
some information (e.g., copyrighted
material) is not publicly available to
read or download from this Web site.
All submissions, including copyrighted
material, are available for inspection
and copying at the OSHA Docket Office.
Information on using the http://
www.regulations.gov Web site to submit
comments and access the docket is
available at the Web site’s ‘‘User Tips’’
link. Contact the OSHA Docket Office
for information about materials not
available from the Web site, and for
assistance in using the Internet to locate
docket submissions.
V. Authority and Signature
Dorothy Dougherty, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Labor for Occupational
Safety and Health, directed the

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preparation of this notice. The authority
for this notice is the Paperwork
Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3506 et seq.)
and Secretary of Labor’s Order No. 1–
2012 (77 FR 3912).
Signed at Washington, DC, on April 13,
2017.
Dorothy Dougherty,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Occupational Safety and Health.
[FR Doc. 2017–08228 Filed 4–21–17; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2010–0038]

Rigging Equipment for Material
Handling; Extension of the Office of
Management and Budget’s (OMB)
Approval of Information Collection
(Paperwork) Requirements
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA), Labor.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
AGENCY:

OSHA solicits public
comments concerning its proposal to
extend the OMB approval of the
information collection requirements
contained in paragraphs (b)(1), (b)(6)(i),
(b)(6)(ii), (c)(15)(ii), (e)(1)(i), (ii), and (iii)
and (f)(2) of the Standard on Rigging
Equipment for Material Handling. These
paragraphs require affixing
identification tags or markings on
rigging equipment, developing and
maintaining inspection records, and
retaining proof-testing certificates.
DATES: Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by June
23, 2017.
ADDRESSES:
Electronically: You may submit
comments and attachments
electronically at http://
www.regulations.gov, which is the
Federal eRulemaking Portal. Follow the
instructions online for submitting
comments.
Facsimile: If your comments,
including attachments, are not longer
than 10 pages, you may fax them to the
OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693–1648.
Mail, hand delivery, express mail,
messenger, or courier service: When
using this method, you must submit a
copy of your comments and attachments
to the OSHA Docket Office, OSHA
Docket No. OSHA–2010–0038,
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration, U.S. Department of
Labor, Room N–3653, 200 Constitution
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20210.

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Deliveries (hand, express mail,
messenger, and courier service) are
accepted during the Department of
Labor’s and Docket Office’s normal
business hours, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.,
e.t.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the Agency name and OSHA
docket number (OSHA–2010–0038) for
the Information Collection Request
(ICR). All comments, including any
personal information you provide, are
placed in the public docket without
change, and may be made available
online at http://www.regulations.gov.
For further information on submitting
comments, see the ‘‘Public
Participation’’ heading in the section of
this notice titled SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION.
Docket: To read or download
comments or other material in the
docket, go to http://www.regulations.gov
or the OSHA Docket Office at the
address above. All documents in the
docket (including this Federal Register
notice) are listed in the http://
www.regulations.gov index; however,
some information (e.g., copyrighted
material) is not publicly available to
read or download from the Web site. All
submissions, including copyrighted
material, are available for inspection
and copying at the OSHA Docket Office.
You may also contact Theda Kenney at
the address below to obtain a copy of
the ICR.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Theda Kenney or Todd Owen,
Directorate of Standards and Guidance,
OSHA, U.S. Department of Labor, Room
N–3609, 200 Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20210; telephone (202)
693–2222.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Department of Labor, as part of its
continuing effort to reduce paperwork
and respondent (i.e., employer) burden,
conducts a preclearance consultation
program to provide the public with an
opportunity to comment on proposed
and continuing information collection
requirements in accord with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA)
(44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). This program
ensures that information is in the
desired format, reporting burden (time
and costs) is minimal, collection
instruments are clearly understood, and
OSHA’s estimate of the information
collection burden is accurate. The
Occupational Safety and Health Act of
1970 (the OSH Act) (29 U.S.C. 651 et
seq.) authorizes information collection
by employers as necessary or
appropriate for enforcement of the OSH

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Act, or for developing information
regarding the causes and prevention of
occupational injuries, illnesses, and
accidents (29 U.S.C. 657). The OSH Act
also requires OSHA to obtain such
information with minimum burden
upon employers, especially those
operating small businesses, and to
reduce to the maximum extent feasible
unnecessary duplication of efforts in
obtaining information (29 U.S.C. 657).
Paragraph (b)(1) of the Standard 29
CFR 1926.251 requires that alloy steel
chains have permanently affixed,
durable identification tags stating size,
grade, rated capacity and sling
manufacturer. Paragraph (b)(6)(i)
requires the employer to make a
thorough periodic inspection of alloy
steel chain slings in use on a regular
basis, but at least once a year. Paragraph
(b)(6)(ii) requires the employer to make
and maintain a record of the most recent
month in which each alloy steel chain
was inspected and make the record
available for examination.
Paragraph (c)(15)(ii) requires that all
welded end attachments of wire rope
slings be proof tested by the
manufacturer at twice their rated
capacity prior to initial use, and that the
employer retain a certificate of the proof
test and make it available for
examination.
Paragraphs (e)(1)(i), (ii), and (iii)
require that synthetic web slings be
marked or coded to show the
manufacturer’s name or trademark, the
rated capacity for the type of hitch and
the type of synthetic webbing material.
Paragraph (f)(2) requires that all hooks
for which no applicable manufacturer’s
recommendations are available be tested
twice before they are put into use. The
employer shall maintain a record of the
dates and results of the tests.
II. Special Issues for Comment
OSHA has a particular interest in
comments on the following issues:
• Whether the proposed information
collection requirements are necessary
for the proper performance of the
Agency’s functions, including whether
the information is useful;
• The accuracy of OSHA’s estimate of
the burden (time and costs) of the
information collection requirements,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
• The quality, utility, and clarity of
the information collected; and
• Ways to minimize the burden on
employers who must-comply for
example, by using automated or other
technological information collection
and transmission techniques.

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