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Take the NVFC’s Survey on OSHA’s Proposed Emergency Response Standard

As you may have heard by now, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is proposing an extensive new safety and health standard, titled “Emergency Response,” to replace the existing “Fire Brigades Standard.” While many of the proposed provisions would be helpful and improve health and safety, the standard as currently written would issue hundreds of new requirements that may be very burdensome, and in many cases impossible, for volunteer fire departments to comply with.
The public comment period is open until June 21. The National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC) is formulating our comments to submit to OSHA and we want to hear from you. If you haven’t already done so, please take 10 minutes to fill out this survey to help us best understand the impact the proposed standard would have on your fire department.

In addition, you can use the resources on the NVFC web site to learn more about the Emergency Response Standard and formulate your own comments to submit to OSHA by the June 21 deadline.

New! NVFC Office Hours

Want to speak with someone at the NVFC regarding the proposed standard or how to write an effective comment? Join Ryan Woodward, NVFC’s chief of legislative and regulatory affairs, for office hours on the following dates/times. These are not webinars – join whenever you can during the specified times to ask your questions and to hear what others are saying.