Spring 2024 regulatory agenda shows where OSHA’s focus lies

A look at OSHA’s Spring 2024 regulatory agenda reveals many rulemakings have been pushed into the third and fourth quarters of 2024 and even early 2025. Two rules got bumped up to the final rule stage from the proposed rule stage, where they sat in Fall 2023 – Personal Protective Equipment in Construction and Powered Industrial Truck Design Standard Update.

The proposed rule stage includes a handful of entries that were previously on OSHA’s long-term action list or in the pre-rule stage, while two new entries also made an appearance: Walking-Working Surfaces, for which OSHA seeks to clarify certain provisions in the 2016 rule, and Rapid REDON Fit-Testing Protocol. The latter is a new fit-testing protocol that would be added to Appendix A of OSHA’s Respiratory Protection Standard.

Bolded entries denote entries new to that rulemaking stage.