Bill Text: NJ A572 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Deems employee completion of required training in Public Employees Occupational Safety and Health program standard valid for other employers with same requirement.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-10 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Housing and Local Government Committee [A572 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2012-A572-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 572

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

215th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2012 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  CONNIE WAGNER

District 38 (Bergen and Passaic)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Deems employee completion of required training in Public Employees Occupational Safety and Health program standard valid for other employers with same requirement.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel

  

An Act concerning training in Public Employees Occupational Safety and Health program standards and supplementing P.L.1983, c.516 (C.34:6A-25 et seq.).

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    A county or municipal employee who has successfully completed a required safety training program provided by the MEL Safety Institute, which meets the New Jersey Public Employees Occupational Safety and Health/Occupational Safety and Health Administration (PEOSH/OSHA) program standard, shall be deemed to be in compliance with a requirement to complete training in that standard that may be imposed by another public entity tor whose jurisdiction the employee is subject as a volunteer.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect on the 30th day following enactment.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill provides that a county or municipal employee who has successfully completed a required safety training program provided by the MEL Safety Institute, which meets the New Jersey Public Employees Occupational Safety and Health/Occupational Safety and Health Administration (PEOSH/OSHA) program standard, shall be deemed to be in compliance with a requirement to complete training in that standard that may be imposed by another public entity to whose jurisdiction the employee is subject as a volunteer.

     Many pubic employees in this State receive training in PEOSH/OSHA standards that is provided by the MEL Safety Institute, which was established to provide PEOSH-required safety training to local government employees.

     The provisions of this bill seek to address a duplicative practice which unnecessarily wastes taxpayer dollars.  For example, in Bergen County emergency medical services (EMS) volunteers who have already completed training at the MEL Safety Institute in PEOSH standards (as a requirement of their job) are being required to undergo the same training through the Bergen County Department of Health Services as a condition of continued EMS volunteer participation in another municipality because the county department does not consider the MEL training to be adequate.