OSHA to Revise ROPS Standard with Direct Final Rule

摘要

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is working on a direct final rule to reinstate its original roll-over protective structures (ROPS) standards for the construction and agriculture industries. OSHA published a technical amendmentin 1996 that revised the construction and agriculture standards for testing of ROPS used to protect employees who operate wheel-type tractors. The revision removed the original ROPS standards and replaced them with references to national consensus (SAE)standards for ROPS-testing requirements. The agency has since conducted a thorough evaluation of the original ROPS standards and those implemented under the 1996 technical amendment. OSHA is now proposing to reinstate the original ROPS standards for construction and agriculture after identifying several substantive differences between the national consensus standards and the original standards.