PERMANENT RULES
LABOR AND INDUSTRIES
Purpose: This rule making is part of our four-year plan to rewrite for clarity all of our general occupational safety and health rules. Machine guarding requirements located in chapters 296-24, 296-78, and 296-302 WAC were reviewed to identify unnecessary design requirements, outdated terminology, incorporate necessary policies and requirements, rewriting and reorganizing for clarity and consolidate into one rule, chapter 296-806 WAC. Also, several references were updated as a result of this being a new chapter. See Reviser's Note below.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: See Reviser's Note below.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 49.17.010, 49.17.040, 49.17.050, and 49.17.060.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 04-03-085 on January 20, 2004.
Changes Other than Editing from Proposed to Adopted Version: See Reviser's Note below.
A final cost-benefit analysis is available by contacting Trista Zugel, Department of Labor and Industries, P.O. Box 44001, Olympia, WA 98504, phone (360) 902-6805, fax (360) 902-4202, e-mail zugy235@lni.wa.gov.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 279, Amended 27, Repealed 130.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 279, Amended 27, Repealed 130.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 279, Amended 27, Repealed 130.
Date Adopted: June 29, 2004.
Paul Trause
Director
Reviser's note: The material contained in this filing exceeded the page-count limitations of WAC 1-21-040 for appearance in this issue of the Register. It will appear in the 04-16 issue of the Register.