Occupational Safety and Health Standards for Cadmium in Shipyard Employment and Construction

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is correcting an error stemming from the wording of the amendatory language of the final rule that incorporated applicable General Industry standards for toxic substances into the Occupational Safety and Health Standards for Shipyard Employment. The final rule, which appeared in the Federal Register on July 1, 1993, had the effect of mistakenly inferring that the cadmium standard for shipyard employment from the Code of Federal Regulations was being deleted though the preamble made it clear it was retained. This correction reprints the full text of the cadmium standard as published on September 14, 1992, and incorporates changes from an April 23, 1993, document that made corrections and amendments to the original publication. In addition, several cross-references regarding employee records are being amended to reflect the designation of a new section in the shipyard employment standards, and a number of effective dates are being converted to dates certain. In addition, OSHA is redesignating the cadmium standard for construction employment, also published in the same September 14 document, into a different subpart. The redesignation merges it in with the newly created subpart that contains specific toxic substance standards for construction.