OSHA’s Top 10 most cited standards for 2022

TOP 5 SECTIONS CITED:

1. 1926.501(b)(13): Every worker engaged in residential building actions 6 ft or extra above decrease ranges shall be protected by guardrail methods, security web methods or private fall arrest system until one other provision in paragraph (b) of this part supplies for an alternate fall safety measure. – 4,183 violations
2. 1926.501(b)(1): Every worker on a walking-working floor (horizontal and vertical floor) with an unprotected facet or edge that’s 6 ft or extra above a decrease degree shall be shielded from falling by way of guardrail methods, security web methods or private fall arrest methods. – 709
3. 1926.501(b)(10): Besides as in any other case supplied in paragraph (b) of this part, every worker engaged in roofing actions on low-slope roofs with unprotected sides and edges 6 ft or extra above decrease ranges shall be shielded from falling by guardrail methods; security web methods; private fall arrest methods; or a mix of warning line system and guardrail system, warning line system and security web system, or warning line system and private fall arrest system, or warning line system and security monitoring system. – 411
4. 1926.501(b)(11): Every worker on a steep roof with unprotected sides and edges 6 ft or extra above decrease ranges shall be shielded from falling by guardrail methods with toeboards, security web methods or private fall arrest methods. – 273
5. 1926.501(b)(4): “Holes.” – 192

TOP 5 SECTIONS CITED:

1. 1910.1200(e)(1): Employers shall develop, implement and keep at every office a written hazard communication program which a minimum of describes how the standards laid out in paragraphs (f), (g) and (h) of this part for labels and different types of warning, Security Information Sheets, and worker info and coaching will likely be met. – 978 violations
2. 1910.1200(h)(1): Employers shall present staff with efficient info and coaching on hazardous chemical compounds of their work space on the time of their preliminary task, and every time a brand new chemical hazard the staff haven’t beforehand been educated about is launched into their work space. Data and coaching could also be designed to cowl classes of hazards (e.g., flammability, carcinogenicity) or particular chemical compounds. Chemical-specific info should at all times be accessible by labels and Security Information Sheets. – 713
3. 1910.1200(g)(8): The employer shall keep within the office copies of the required Security Information Sheets for every hazardous chemical, and shall guarantee they’re readily accessible throughout every work shift to staff when they’re of their work space(s). – 285
4. 1910.1200(f)(6): Office labeling. Besides as supplied in paragraphs (f)(7) and (f)(8) of this part, the employer shall guarantee every container of hazardous chemical compounds within the office is labeled, tagged or marked. – 252
5. 1910.1200(g)(1): Chemical producers and importers shall get hold of or develop a Security Information Sheet for every hazardous chemical they produce or import. Employers shall have a Security Information Sheet within the office for every hazardous chemical which they use. – 199

TOP 5 SECTIONS CITED:

1. 1926.1053(b)(1): When moveable ladders are used for entry to an higher touchdown floor, the ladder facet rails shall lengthen a minimum of 3 ft above the higher touchdown floor to which the ladder is used to achieve entry; or, when such an extension will not be potential due to the ladder’s size, then the ladder shall be secured at its prime to a inflexible assist that won’t deflect, and a greedy system, reminiscent of a seize rail, shall be supplied to help staff in mounting and dismounting the ladder. In no case shall the extension be such that ladder deflection underneath a load would, by itself, trigger the ladder to slide off its assist. – 1,545 violations
2. 1926.1053(b)(4): Ladders shall be used just for the aim for which they have been designed. – 295
3. 1926.1053(b)(13): The highest or prime step of a stepladder shall not be used as a step. – 204
4. 1926.1053(b)(16): Transportable ladders with structural defects, reminiscent of, however not restricted to, damaged or lacking rungs, cleats or steps; damaged or break up rails; corroded elements; or different defective or faulty elements, shall both be instantly marked in a fashion that readily identifies them as faulty, or be tagged with “Do Not Use” or related language, and shall be withdrawn from service till repaired. – 79
5. 1926.1053(b)(5): Non-self-supporting ladders shall be used at an angle such that the horizontal distance from the highest assist to the foot of the ladder is roughly one-quarter of the working size of the ladder (the gap alongside the ladder between the foot and the highest assist). – 65

TOP 5 SECTIONS CITED:

1. 1910.134(e)(1): The employer shall present a medical analysis to find out the worker’s capability to make use of a respirator, earlier than the worker is fit-tested or required to make use of the respirator within the office. The employer might discontinue an worker’s medical evaluations when the worker is now not required to make use of a respirator. – 497 violations
2. 1926.501(b)(1): Every worker on a walking-working floor (horizontal and vertical floor) with an unprotected facet or edge that’s 6 ft or extra above a decrease degree shall be shielded from falling by way of guardrail methods, security web methods or private fall arrest methods. – 709
3. 1910.134(f)(2): The employer shall guarantee an worker utilizing a tight-fitting facepiece respirator is fit-tested previous to preliminary use of the respirator, every time a distinct respirator facepiece (measurement, model, mannequin or make) is used, and a minimum of yearly thereafter. – 459
4. 1910.134(c)(1): In any office the place respirators are mandatory to guard the well being of the worker or every time respirators are required by the employer, the employer shall set up and implement a written respiratory safety program with worksite-specific procedures. This system shall be up to date as essential to replicate these adjustments in office situations that have an effect on respirator use. – 323
5. 1910.134(f)(1): The employer shall guarantee staff utilizing a tight-fitting facepiece respirator move an applicable qualitative match check (QLFT) or quantitative match check (QNFT) as acknowledged on this paragraph. – 136

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1. 1926.451(g)(1): Every worker on a scaffold greater than 10 ft above a decrease degree shall be shielded from falling to that decrease degree. – 644 violations
2. 1926.451(c)(2): Supported scaffold poles, legs, posts, frames and uprights shall bear on base plates and dust sills or different satisfactory agency basis. – 306
3. 1926.451(e)(1): When scaffold platforms are greater than 2 ft above or beneath some extent of entry, moveable ladders; hook-on ladders; attachable ladders; stair towers (scaffold stairways/towers); stairway-type ladders (reminiscent of ladder stands); ramps; walkways; integral prefabricated scaffold entry; or direct entry from one other scaffold, construction, personnel hoist or related floor shall be used. Cross braces shall not be used as a way of entry. – 277
4. 1926.451(b)(1): Every platform on all working ranges of scaffolds shall be totally planked or decked between the entrance uprights and the guardrail helps. – 267
5. 1926.451(g)(4): Guardrail methods put in to fulfill the necessities of this part shall adjust to the next provisions (guardrail methods in-built accordance with Appendix A to this subpart will likely be deemed to fulfill the necessities of paragraphs (g)(4)(vii), (viii) and (ix) of this part). – 152

TOP 5 SECTIONS CITED:

1. 1910.147(c)(4): Vitality management process. – 638 violations
2. 1910.147(c)(7): Coaching and communication. – 434
3. 1910.147(c)(6): Periodic inspection. – 338
4. 1910.147(c)(1): The employer shall set up a program consisting of vitality management procedures, worker coaching and periodic inspections to make sure earlier than any worker performs any servicing or upkeep on a machine or gear the place the surprising energizing, startup or launch of saved vitality may happen and trigger harm, the machine or gear shall be remoted from the vitality supply and rendered inoperative. – 199
5. 1910.147(c)(5): Protecting supplies and {hardware}. – 63

TOP 5 SECTIONS CITED:

1. 1910.178(l)(1): Secure operation. – 500 violations
2. 1910.178(l)(4): Refresher coaching and analysis. – 254
3. 1910.178(l)(6): The employer shall certify that every operator has been educated and evaluated as required by this paragraph (l). The certification shall embody the title of the operator, the date of the coaching, the date of the analysis and the identification of the individual(s) performing the coaching or analysis. – 223
4. 1910.178(p)(1): If at any time a powered industrial truck is discovered to be in want of restore, faulty or in any means unsafe, the truck shall be taken out of service till it has been restored to secure working situation. – 132
5. 1910.178(q)(7): Industrial vans shall be examined earlier than being positioned in service, and shall not be positioned in service if the examination reveals any situation adversely affecting the protection of the car. Such examination shall be made a minimum of day by day. The place industrial vans are used on a round the clock foundation, they shall be examined after every shift. Defects when discovered shall be instantly reported and corrected. – 120

TOP 5 SECTIONS CITED:

1. 1926.503(a)(1): The employer shall present a coaching program for every worker who is perhaps uncovered to fall hazards. This system shall allow every worker to acknowledge the hazards of falling and shall prepare every worker within the procedures to be adopted in an effort to decrease these hazards. – 1,235 violations
2. 1926.503(b)(1): The employer shall confirm compliance with paragraph (a) of this part by getting ready a written certification report. The written certification report shall include the title or different identification of the worker educated, the date(s) of the coaching, and the signature of the one who carried out the coaching or the signature of the employer. If the employer depends on coaching carried out by one other employer or accomplished previous to the efficient date of this part, the certification report shall point out the date the employer decided the prior coaching was satisfactory somewhat than the date of precise coaching. – 356
3. 1926.503(a)(2): The employer shall guarantee every worker has been educated, as mandatory, by a reliable individual. – 123
4. 1926.503(c)(3): Inadequacies in an affected worker’s data or use of fall safety methods or gear point out that the worker has not retained the requisite understanding or ability. – 42
5. 1926.503(c): “Retraining.” When the employer has purpose to imagine that any affected worker who has already been educated doesn’t have the understanding and ability required by paragraph (a) of this part, the employer shall retrain every such worker. – 19

TOP 4 SECTIONS CITED:

1. 1926.102(a)(1): The employer shall guarantee every affected worker makes use of applicable eye or face safety when uncovered to eye or face hazards from flying particles, molten metallic, liquid chemical compounds, acids or caustic liquids, chemical gases or vapors, or doubtlessly injurious gentle radiation. – 1,553 violations
2. 1926.102(a)(2): The employer shall guarantee every affected worker makes use of eye safety that gives facet safety when there’s a hazard from flying objects. Removable facet protectors (e.g., clip-on or slide-on facet shields) assembly the pertinent necessities of this part are acceptable. – 25
3. 1926.102(a)(3): The employer shall guarantee every affected worker who wears prescription lenses whereas engaged in operations that contain eye hazards wears eye safety that comes with the prescription in its design, or wears eye safety that may be worn over the prescription lenses with out disturbing the correct place of the prescription lenses or the protecting lenses. – 3
4. 1926.102(c)(1): Choice of shade numbers for welding filter. – 1

TOP 5 SECTIONS CITED:

1. 1910.212(a)(1): Forms of guarding. A number of strategies of machine guarding shall be supplied to guard the operator and different staff within the machine space from hazards reminiscent of these created by level of operation, ingoing nip factors, rotating elements, flying chips and sparks. – 980 violations
2. 1910.212(a)(3): Level of operation guarding. – 384
3. 1910.212(b): Anchoring fastened equipment. Machines designed for a hard and fast location shall be securely anchored to stop strolling or transferring. – 63
4. 1910.212(a)(2): Common necessities for machine guards. Guards shall be affixed to the machine the place potential and secured elsewhere if for any purpose attachment to the machine will not be potential. The guard shall be such that it doesn’t provide an accident hazard in itself. – 37
5. 1910.212(a)(5): Publicity of blades. When the periphery of the blades of a fan is lower than 7 ft above the ground or working degree, the blades shall be guarded. The guard shall have openings no bigger than one-half inch. – 17