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OSHA Regional Directive Updates & Emphasis Programs [2023 Updates]
Local Emphasis Programs (LEPs) are enforcement strategies designed and implemented at the regional office and/or area office levels. These programs are intended to address hazards or industries that pose a particular risk to workers in the office's jurisdiction. The emphasis programs may be implemented by a single area office, or at the regional level (Regional Emphasis Programs (REP)) and applied to all of the area offices within the region. These LEPs will be accompanied by outreach intended to make employers in the area aware of the program as well as the hazards that the programs are designed to reduce or eliminate. This outreach may be in the form of informational mailings, training at local tradeshows, or speeches at meetings of industry groups or labor organizations.
OSHA REGION 1 [2023 Updates]
CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, VT
No updates for 2023.
OSHA REGION 1 [2022 Updates]
No updates for 2022.
OSHA REGION 2 [2023 Updates]
NJ, NY, Puerto Rico, VI
No updates for 2023.
OSHA REGION 2 [2022 Updates]
No updates for 2022.
OSHA REGION 3 [2023 Updates]
DE, DC, MD, PA, VA, WV
Regional Emphasis Program for Warehousing Operation
Effective [08/03/2022]
Purpose: This instruction establishes policies and strategies to be followed when scheduling and conducting programmed regional emphasis inspections of warehousing, storage, and distribution yard operations in targeted North American Industry Classification System codes (NAICS). This instruction also applies where powered industrial trucks are used in other warehousing, storage, and distribution yard operations not in a targeted NAICS code.
Scope: This instruction applies to areas of federal jurisdiction in Region III and is limited to warehousing and inside or outside storage and distribution yards in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia, including those located at federal agencies, and federal installations in Region III’s jurisdiction. This REP will apply to warehousing, storage, and distribution yard operations with emphasis
on NAICS codes.
Read the full REP: Regional Emphasis Program for Warehousing Operation
Equipment List
- RAE Systems ToxiRAE Pro CO Gas Monitor
- RAE Systems ToxiRAE Pro CO2 Gas Monitor
- Slate Safety Band II Personal Heat Stress Monitor
- TSI QUESTemp 46 Area Heat Stress Monitor
- Testo 350 Emissions Analyzers to tune emissions from forklift trucks
OSHA REGION 3 [2022 Updates]
No updates for 2022.
OSHA REGION 4 [2023 Updates]
AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, SC, TN
No updates for 2023.
OSHA REGION 4 [2022 Updates]
No updates for 2022.
OSHA REGION 5 [2023 Updates]
IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI
Local Emphasis Program for Food Manufacturing Industry
Effective [10/03/2022]
Purpose: This Notice establishes a Local Emphasis Program (LEP) for the purpose of scheduling and conducting inspections within the Food Manufacturing industry.
Scope: Area Directors shall use the procedures described in Paragraph VIII of this Notice as the basis for developing and implementing inspection activity in those facilities that produce and manufacture food products.
Read the full LEP: Local Emphasis Program for Food Manufacturing Industry
Equipment List
OSHA REGION 5 [2022 Updates]
Local Emphasis Program for Food Manufacturing Industry
Effective [04/19/2022]
Purpose: This Notice establishes a Local Emphasis Program (LEP) for the purpose of scheduling and conducting inspections within the Food Manufacturing industry.
Scope: Area Directors shall use the procedures described in Paragraph VIII of this Notice as the basis for developing and implementing inspection activity in those facilities that produce and manufacture food products.
Read the full LEP: Local Emphasis Program for Food Manufacturing Industry
Equipment List
OSHA REGION 6 [2023 Updates]
AR, LA, NM, OK, TX
No updates for 2023.
OSHA REGION 6 [2022 Updates]
Regional Emphasis Program for Grain Handling Facilities
Effective [04/01/2022]
Purpose: This Instruction renews a Regional Emphasis Program (REP) to identify and reduce or eliminate the workplace incidence of hazards which are causing or likely to cause serious injury or death in grain handling facilities.
Scope: This Instruction applies to all worksites in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas, and those worksites in New Mexico that are under Federal Jurisdiction.
Read the full REP:Regional Emphasis Program for Grain Handling Facilities
Equipment List
Regional Emphasis Program for Health Hazards in the Healthcare Industry
Effective [04/01/2022]
Purpose: This Instruction renews a Regional Emphasis Program (REP) for programmed, comprehensive health inspections in certain segments of the Healthcare Industry.
Scope: This Instruction applies to all worksites, covered by the NAICS within the REP, in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas, and those worksites in New Mexico that are under Federal OSHA jurisdiction.
Read the full REP: Regional Emphasis Program for Health Hazards in the Healthcare Industry
Equipment List
Regional Emphasis Program for Poultry Processing Facilities
Effective [04/01/2022]
Purpose: This Instruction renews a Regional Emphasis Program (REP) for Poultry Processing Facilities.
Scope: This Instruction applies to all poultry processing worksites in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas, and those worksites in New Mexico that are under Federal Jurisdiction.
Read the full REP: Regional Emphasis Program for Poultry Processing Facilities
Equipment List
OSHA REGION 7 [2023 Updates]
IA, KS, MO, NE
No updates for 2023.
OSHA REGION 7 [2022 Updates]
Regional Emphasis Program (REP) – Workplaces with Noise Hazards
Effective [02/28/2022]
Purpose: This Instruction continues a Regional Emphasis Program (REP) for programmed health inspections of establishments in industries that commonly have noise hazards.
Scope: This Instruction applies to all establishments within the Region VII Federal Enforcement Offices.
Read the full REP: Regional Emphasis Program for Workplaces with Noise Hazards
Equipment List
OSHA REGION 8 [2023 Updates]
CO, MT, ND, SD, UT, WY
No updates for 2023.
OSHA REGION 8 [2022 Updates]
Regional Emphasis Program for Powered Industrial Vehicles
Effective [08.22.2022]
Purpose: This purpose of this Instruction is to implement a Regional Emphasis Program (REP) to reduce injuries while operating powered industrial vehicles and other material or personnel handling motorized equipment in construction and general industry.
Scope: This Instruction applies to all area offices within Region VIII’s jurisdiction.
Read the full REP: Regional Emphasis Program for Powered Industrial Vehicles
Equipment List
- RAE Systems ToxiRAE Pro CO Gas Monitor
- RAE Systems ToxiRAE Pro CO2 Gas Monitor
- Slate Safety Band II Personal Heat Stress Monitor
- TSI QUESTemp 46 Area Heat Stress Monitor
- Testo 350 Emissions Analyzers to tune emissions from forklift trucks
Regional Emphasis Program - Noise Induced Hearing Loss
Effective [02.15.2022]
Purpose: This instruction implements a Regional Emphasis Program (REP) for inspections of workplaces with potentially high levels of noise exposure.
Scope: This Instruction applies to all Area Offices in Region VIII.
Read the full REP: Regional Emphasis Program for Noise Induced Hearing Loss
Equipment List
Regional Emphasis Program on Silica in Cut Stone and Slab Handling
Effective [02/08/2022]
Purpose: The purpose of this Notice is to establish a Regional Emphasis Program (REP) to reduce incidents of workplace illness related to silica. It targets a specific industry expected to have high exposures to Respirable Crystalline Silica (RCS) and focuses on enforcement of the new RCS Standard, 29 CFR § 1910.1053. The REP also addresses struck-by and crushing hazards during the handling of granite, marble, limestone, slate, and other stone slabs.
Scope: This Notice applies to Cut Stone and Stone Products operations, NAICS code 327991, located within the jurisdiction of each Area Office in Region VIII.
Read the full REP: Regional Emphasis Program on Silica in Cut Stone and Slab Handling
Equipment List
OSHA REGION 9 [2023 Updates]
AZ, CA, HI, NV, American Samoa, Guam, and Northern Mariana Islands
No updates for 2023.
OSHA REGION 9 [2022 Updates]
Regional Policy for Heat Illnesses
Effective [11.04.2022]
Purpose: This instruction establishes a Regional Emphasis Program (REP) for heat related health hazards.
Scope: This Instruction applies to Federal enforcement activities in Region IX
Read the full REP: Regional Policy for Heat Illnesses
Equipment List
Processing Significant and Novel Enforcement Cases
Effective [07.08.2022]
Purpose: To revise regional policy and procedures for handling significant and novel enforcement cases and willful violations.
Scope: This directive applies to all area offices and the Office of Enforcement Programs within Region 9.
Read the full REP: Processing Significant and Novel Enforcement Cases
Equipment List
- No specific equipment
OSHA REGION 10 [2023 Updates]
AK, ID, OR, WA
No updates for 2023.
OSHA REGION 10 [2022 Updates]
No updates for 2022.
