Name:           DELOACH GENE
Title:          
Organization:   TRUS JOIST
Date:           20030307
Address1:       
Address2:       
City:           VALDOSTA
State:          GA
Zip Code:       31601
Docket Number:  S030
Exhibit Number: 7-8
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Safety Standards for Cranes and Derricks
 
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is planning to establish a Crane and Derrick Negotiated Rulemaking Advisory Committee (C-DAC) under the Negotiated Rulemaking Act (NRA) and the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). The Committee will include representatives of parties who would be significantly affected by the final rule. 
 
On July 16, 2002, OSHA published a Federal Register notice of intent to establish a negotiated rulemaking committee (67 FR 46612) and requested nominations for membership. In the current Federal Register notice OSHA is asking for comments on the proposed list of fifty-five nominations.  The list can be found in the complete notice.
 
Please note that you may not attach materials such as studies or journal articles to your electronic comments. If you wish to include such materials, you must submit three copies to the OSHA Docket Office at the address listed above. When submitting such materials to the OSHA Docket Office, clearly identify your electronic comments by name, date, subject, and Docket Number, so that we can attach the materials to your electronic comments.
 
Online comments must be received by March 31, 2003 COB EST.  If you wish to commit online on the proposed list of Committee members, please enter your submission in the box below.  Thank you for your interest in worker safety and health. 
 
Just a suggestion in reviewing how this will be established. Make the crane standard as close to the forklift as possible for cross reference and user-friendly to the industry because we have been there and done that in forklift compliance. Using the forklift standard we placed controls that helped our Plant in Bridge Crane safety concerns. We just followed the forklift standard in addressing and approaching crane training (class room and "OJT"), eatablished pre-use safety inspection for cranes and crane evaluation for licensing. We even used it for hand crane operations. Again I know OSHA has a lot to do, just a suggestion to format the standard.
 
