GENERAL INDUSTRY SAFETY AND HEALTH STANDARD PART 73 FIRE BRIGADES

PUBLIC HEARING TRANSCRIPT – JUNE 14, 2023

Good morning. I would like to call the Hearing to Order. My name is Daniela Garza, Rules

Analyst with the MIOSHA Standards and FOIA Section, I will be facilitating the hearing today.

This meeting is being recorded. At this time, please make sure your cell phones are silenced.

Thank you

This hearing is being called to order at 10:09 on June 14, 2023, at the Ottawa Building, Upper

Level, Conference Room 2, 611 W. Ottawa St., Lansing MI 48933.

This is a public hearing for proposed administrative rules for MIOSHA General Industry Safety

and Health Standard Part 73 Fire Brigades.

This hearing is being conducted pursuant to provisions of the

• Administrative Procedures Act 306 of 1969, MCL 24.242;

• MIOSHA Public Act 154 of 1974 as amended, MCL 408.1014r, MCL 408.1016, and MCL

408.1021;

• Executive Reorganization Order Nos. 1996-2, 2003-1, 2008-4, 2011-4, and 2019-3, MCL

445.2001, 445.2011, 445.2025, 445.2030, and 125.1998.

• and on behalf of the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity.

The public hearing notice was published in three newspapers of general circulation, as well as

the June 1, 2023, edition of the Michigan Register.

We are here today to receive your comments only on the proposed rules. If you wish to speak,

please make sure you have signed in and indicated your willingness to speak. We will call on

speakers in the order in which names are listed on the sign in sheets. When you come forward,

please identify yourself by giving your name, as well as who you represent so that this

information can be included in the hearing report. If you have additional comments to submit

in writing, you may leave them at the registration desk or submit them to our department no

later than 5 p.m. today, June 14, 2023.

Since there are no comments at this time, I will close the hearing, at 10:11. The record will

remain open until 5 p.m. today, June 14, 2023, for any additional comments you may wish to

share regarding the proposed rules.

Thank you all for coming today.