OSHA Plans To Unveil I2P2 Draft Reg Text Second Half Of February, Outlines 'Basic Elements'

OSHA will release the draft regulatory text of its planned injury and illness prevention program (I2P2) rule in the second half of February, as part of the formal small business review process, an agency official told Inside OSHA Online, and in advance of that the agency is spelling out six basic tenets of what it envisions for I2P2. The basic elements of I2P2, according to OSHA, are: management leadership; worker participation; hazard identification and assessment; hazard prevention and control; education and training; and program evaluation and improvement. “An Injury and Illness Prevention