OSHA's Spring Agenda is being discussed in many safety and health-related websites and blogs. So, you might be hearing more about "I2P2", OSHA's potential rule to require all employers to implement an Illness and Injury Prevention Program (I2P2). The program essentially would require employers to find and fix hazards in the workplace. See more on the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs website.
Per the OSHA website, the agency believes that an I2P2 rule would include the following elements:
1.) Management duties (including items such as establishing a policy, setting goals, planning and allocating and allocating resources, and assigning and communicating roles and responsibilities);
2.) Employee participation (including items such as involving employees in establishing, maintaining and evaluating the program, employee access to safety and health information, and employee role in incident investigations);
3.) Hazard identification and assessment (including items such as what hazards must be identified, information gathering, workplace inspections, incident investigations, hazards associated with changes in the workplace, emergency hazards, hazard assessment and prioritization, and hazard identification tools);
4.) Hazard prevention and control (including items such as what hazards must be controlled, hazard control priorities, and the effectiveness of the controls);
5.) Education and training (including items such as content of training, relationship to other OSHA training requirements, and periodic training); and
6.) Program evaluation and improvement (including items such as monitoring performance, correcting program deficiencies, and improving program performance).
If these look familiar, they should. OSHA's website has included these program guidelines for years. The difference is they may be required in the future.
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