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Labor opens rigging-equipment paperwork review, with comments due November 16
Published 2026-10-16
The October 16 notice seeks OMB review of tags, inspection records and proof-testing paperwork. It is not a new safety standard, credential or job opening.
The U.S. Department of Labor published an October 16, 2026 notice seeking public comments on an OSHA information collection for rigging equipment used in material handling. The Office of Management and Budget will consider written comments received on or before November 16, 2026. This is a paperwork-review notice, not a newly enacted rigging-safety standard.
The collection covers identification tags or markings on rigging equipment, inspection records and proof-testing certificates. The notice points readers to an earlier December 31, 2025 notice for additional background. Employers should distinguish the current request for comments from the underlying safety requirements that already apply to their work.
Labor is seeking authorization for the information collection for three years. The notice says existing information collections receive month-to-month extensions while OMB reviews them. That administrative process does not establish a new training credential or an apprenticeship opening.
The notice estimates 115,829 respondents, 263,953 responses and 49,160 hours of annual time burden. It lists zero dollars of estimated annual other-cost burden. Those estimates are national paperwork figures, not a promise that an employer incurs no labor, equipment, inspection or compliance costs.
The existing construction regulation at 29 CFR 1926.251 says rigging equipment must be inspected before use on each shift and as needed during use, and that defective equipment must be removed from service. This short brief does not replace the full standard or its equipment-specific requirements.
The notice directs comments to the federal information-collection review system and identifies OMB control number 1218-0233. Readers who wish to comment should use the submission instructions in the original Federal Register notice and check the stated deadline. No comment is submitted on a reader's behalf by this article.