The standards will require covered
employers to monitor employee exposure to respirable crystalline
silica, to establish either regulated areas or a written access
control plan, to conduct medical surveillance, and to establish and
maintain accurate records of employee exposure to respirable
crystalline silica and employee medical records. These records will
be used by employers, workers, physicians and the Government to
ensure that workers are not being harmed by exposure to respirable
crystalline silica.
US Code:
29
USC 657 Name of Law: Occupational Safety and Health Act
US Code: 29
USC 651 Name of Law: Occupational Safety and Health Act
US Code: 29
USC 655 Name of Law: Occupational Safety and Health Act
The agency requests approval
for an adjustment increase of 349,902 burden hours (from 12,118,364
to 12,468,266). The requested adjustment increase is associated
with the agency’s correction of several administrative errors in
the previous ICR. Specifically, the adjustment would include
additional burden hours for the development and updating of the
written exposure control plan associated with medium-sized general
industry establishments. In addition, the adjustment would add
additional burden hours for employers to provide information to a
physician or other licensed health care professional in association
with employee periodic medical examinations. These burden hours
were displayed in the previous ICR spreadsheets as costs incurred
after the initial year of standard implementation but were not
included in the burden hour totals in the previous ICR. The
adjustment also would add additional burden hours for managers to
ensure worker receipt of the PLHCP and specialist’s written medical
report and distribute the PLHCP and specialist’s written medical
opinion to workers and the employer in association with employee
initial, periodic, and additional medical examinations. There were
also minor burden hour adjustments associated with the agency’s use
of a different burden hour time rounding method in the
calculations. In addition, to better align the ICR with ROCIS
fields and for PRA purposes only, the agency adjusted the previous
ICR time estimate, burden hours and costs for overall initial,
periodic and specialist medical examinations to separate out the
burden hours and costs associated with an employer’s employee time
and cost to wait for the PLHCP to complete medical surveillance
forms, including the time to provide the forms to the employee and
opinion to the employer, during the medical examination. This
resulted in a substantial increase in responses associated with the
forms. The agency also requests an adjustment decrease of $351 for
operation and maintenance costs (from $393,789,901 to $393,789,550)
to adjust for administrative errors and to maintain all other
previously approved operation and maintenance costs. In addition,
to better align the ICR with ROCIS fields and for PRA purposes
only, the agency adjusted the operation and maintenance cost
estimates for overall initial, periodic and specialist medical
examinations to separate out the cost for a PLHCP to complete
medical surveillance forms, and costs to provide the forms to the
worker and employer respectively, during medical examination. This
resulted in a substantial increase in responses associated with the
forms.
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No
No
No
No
No
No
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Saleda Perryman
No
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
Form 29 CFR 1910.1053 a Respirable Crystalline Silica Standards for General Industry, Maritime (29 CFR 1910.1053) and Construction (29 CFR 1926.1053) - Sample Forms in Appendix B of the CFR
Silica supporting spreadsheets ROCIS 123019 combined.pdf
SS_1218-0266 Silica ICR ROCIS upload 01.08.20ntc.docx
Respirable Crystalline Silica Standards for General Industry, Maritime (29 CFR 1910.1053) and Construction (29 CFR 1926.1053) - Sample Forms in Appendix B of the CFR