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OSHA TOP 10 MOST CITED

Machine Guarding remains at #10

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced its Top 10 most frequently cited workplace safety standards for fiscal year 2024. Scott Ketcham, director of OSHA’s Directorate of Enforcement Programs, presented the preliminary list at the 2024 NSC Safety Congress & Expo, the world’s largest annual gathering of safety professionals.

The 10 categories on last year’s list all appear on the list again this year—the violations haven’t changed; only their relative position on the Top 10 list. 8 of the 10 categories had fewer violations this year than in the previous year

The Top 10 most frequently cited workplace safety standards for FY 2024 are:

  1. Fall Protection – General Requirements (1926.501): 6,307 violations
  2. Hazard Communication (1910.1200): 2,888
  3. Ladders (1926.1053): 2,573
  4. Respiratory Protection (1910.134): 2,470
  5. Lockout/Tagout (1910.147): 2,443
  6. Powered Industrial Trucks (1910.178): 2,248
  7. Fall Protection – Training Requirements (1926.503): 2,050
  8. Scaffolding (1926.451): 1,873
  9. Personal Protective and Lifesaving Equipment – Eye and Face Protection (1926.102): 1,814
  10. Machine Guarding (1910.212): 1,541

 

Machine Guarding (1910.212) remains on the list at number 10, with 1,541 citations. 

History of Machine Guarding in the top 10 most cited violations:

 

YearPositionViolations
 2023 10 1,644
2022101,469
2021101,113
2020101,313
201991,743
201891,972
201781,933
201682,451
201592,540
201492,520
2013102,852
201262,097
2011102,728
2010102,364

Learn more about the announcement here. A more in-depth analysis of the Top 10 violations for 2024 will be published in the December edition of Safety+Health magazine, a National Safety Council publication.

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