OSHA published two notices in the Federal Register on October 29 extending the Office of Management and Budget's approval of existing paperwork requirements under the Fire Protection in Shipyard Employment standard and the Grain Handling Facilities standard. Both are routine three-year renewals of already-existing information-collection rules, not new safety requirements.
The shipyard standard covers fire-watch logs, hot-work permits, and fire-extinguisher inspection records on vessel repair and construction work — relevant to any contractor doing work at a New York or New Jersey marine terminal, drydock, or shipyard, including Port Authority and MTA marine facilities. The grain-handling standard covers housekeeping logs, permit-required confined-space entry records, and training documentation at grain elevators and feed mills — a smaller slice of the New York market but one that touches upstate agricultural infrastructure work, including projects like the Central New York Regional Market Authority's open overhead-door bid (RFI-003221, due October 29).
Neither notice changes a safety requirement, a training interval, or an inspection frequency. Both are solely continuations of the paperwork OSHA is authorized to require contractors keep on file.
What to do next
If your firm does shipyard or grain-facility work, no action is required — the recordkeeping forms and retention periods you already use stay in effect. Keep your fire-watch and confined-space logs where they've always lived; an inspector checking compliance in 2027 will ask for the same paperwork they'd have asked for last month.