OSHA renews emphasis programs in the Northeast

Boston — OSHA’s Boston regional office recently renewed some of its Regional Emphasis Programs.

They are:

• Residential construction
• Cranes in construction
• Noise in the workplace
• Powered industrial trucks

The REPs were renewed for five years beginning Oct. 1. Only one of the REP directives contains “significant changes”: residential construction. That REP has an updated NAICS code description and no longer has a section on “tracking database.”