Message-ID: <14416852.1075852054188.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 07:13:00 -0800 (PST) From: stephen.allen@enron.com To: tonyb@nepco.com, herb_caballero@enron.net, kenneth.lovejoy@enron.com, roger.raney@enron.com, henry.van@enron.com, linda.adels@enron.com, paul.duplachan@enron.com Subject: Revisions to Office Ergonomics Program Draft Cc: russell.tucker@enron.com, john.shafer@enron.com, michael.terraso@enron.com, shelley.corman@enron.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bcc: russell.tucker@enron.com, john.shafer@enron.com, michael.terraso@enron.com, shelley.corman@enron.com X-From: Stephen Allen X-To: tonyb@nepco.com, herb_caballero@enron.net, Kenneth Lovejoy, Roger Raney, Henry Van, Linda Adels, Paul Duplachan X-cc: Russell Tucker, John Shafer, Michael Terraso, Shelley Corman X-bcc: X-Folder: \Shelley_Corman_Nov2001\Notes Folders\All documents X-Origin: CORMAN-S X-FileName: scorman.nsf In light of the challenges being offered by the Ergonomics Standard and to ensure that each group within Enron understands the importance of the Grandfather requirements, we have scheduled a meeting on Thursday, November 30, at 1 PM CST. Those of you who will be in Houston can get together in the Crisis Center (EB4554) and others can join in the meeting via conference call at 877 795-3687, Access Code 539773. Russ has told me the meeting may last an hour, depending on questions. He has also informed me that prior to our meeting we should all read the document attached in his memo below. Thanks in advance for your participation. Steve ---------------------- Forwarded by Stephen Allen/OTS/Enron on 11/27/2000 02:55 PM --------------------------- Russell Tucker 11/22/2000 03:57 PM To: Stephen Allen/OTS/Enron@ENRON, abolars@enron.com, Herb Caballero/Enron Communications@Enron Communications, Paul Duplachan/ECF/Enron@ENRON, George Allen Orum/ECF/Enron@ENRON, Roger Raney/HOU/EES@EES, Scott Watson/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Ron E Wells/EFS/EES@EES, Donnie Willmann/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT cc: Shelley Corman/ET&S/Enron@ENRON, Frank Smith/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Gary Allen/OTS/Enron@ENRON, Marc Phillips/OTS/Enron@ENRON, John Shafer/OTS/Enron@Enron, Michael Terraso/OTS/Enron@ENRON, Henry Van/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, edgar.zuleta@transredes.com, Kenneth Lovejoy/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Jeffrey Keeler/Corp/Enron@ENRON Subject: Revisions to Office Ergonomics Program Draft Attached is the promised revisions to the last draft of the Office Ergonomics Program to bring it in line with the OSHA final rule for Grandfathering. As reports place each of you in different phases of modification of the last draft, I have left the corrections and additions in red so that you may easily see the areas needing changes. All are considered required changes except: *The time to retain ergo related records other than program evaluations is not set under the Grandfather requirements. Most will want to know how long to keep records, and so this is established herein, but you may wish to modify the times. *Appendix II and III is not required unless you do not Grandfather, but may be used anyway if you so desire. As some have not established a decision on Grandfathering, these attachments have been included in case they are needed. If used, you will need to fill in the name and phone number on the where to report MSD work related injuries in Appendix II. I can do this for you if you supply the name and number and desire or intend to distribute the appendixes in digital form. Note that this version is set up for use by the Enron EH&S Group for Houston office employees, and should not be used without making the revisions to reflect your company operations and internal organization in the respective places in the text. Implementation does not mean you have to have completed all the requirements in the written program. You will have 11 months from November 14, 2000 to accomplish that, new hires notwithstanding. The final rule Preamble allows modifications until Jan. 16, 2001 for programs implemented prior to Nov. 14, 2000. This is a written program intended for Grandfathering under 29 CFR 1910.900(c), and if used as a written plan to meet other requirements of this Standard will need additional modification. We are waiting on legal review by an outside attorney on some areas of the final rule which should be available in about a week. A Safety Notice will then be issued on this final rule. A revised compliance draft for the Field/Plant written program will be issued next week. Regards, Russ