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Ruder Ware

October OSHA News in Brief – New Interpretation on Drug Testing and Safety Incentives, Targeting Employers Using Form 300A Data,...

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Three related developments on the OSHA front in October have implications for employers. First, OSHA has walked back its previous interpretation of the anti-retaliation rule it implemented in 2016. That rule prohibits...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

OSHA’s Revised “Improve Tracking Of Workplace Injuries And Illnesses Regulation” At OMB For Review

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OSHA is a step closer to publishing a proposed rule revising the Obama-era regulation, Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses. OSHA’s proposal has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)...more

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OSHA’s E-Recordkeeping Deadline Extended Again – Stroke of Midnight December 31, 2017

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The December 15, 2017 deadline for large employers and small employers in certain “high hazard industries” to submit injury and illness data to OSHA has just passed, but it is not too late to submit injury data without being...more

Baker Donelson

New December 15, 2017 OSHA Deadline for Submission of 2016 Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses is Fast Approaching

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Employers have until December 1, 2017 to electronically submit injury and illness information from their 2016 Summary of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses (Form 300A) under OSHA’s 2016 Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries...more

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OSHA Delays First Deadline for Electronic Reporting to December 15, 2017

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On November 24, 2017, OSHA published a final rule in the Federal Register delaying the initial compliance deadline for the electronic submission of worker injury and illness logs to December 15, 2017. By December 15, all...more

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OSHA Sets December 15 Deadline to Electronically Submit Workplace Injury and Illness Reports

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After much uncertainty and delay, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration confirmed that the deadline for employers to electronically submit injury and illness data from their 2016 OSHA Form 300A is December 15,...more

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Status of OSHA’s Electronic Recordkeeping Rule – The First Deadline to Submit Injury Data is Upon Us

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The December 1, 2017 deadline for large employers and small employers in certain “high hazard industries” to submit injury and illness data to OSHA is less than two weeks away. We have been tracking closely the Trump...more

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OSHA “Clarifies” Employers’ Injury and Illness Recordkeeping Obligations

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In the closing days of the Obama Administration, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued a final rule that “clarifies” employers’ “continuing obligation” to make and maintain an accurate record of...more

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Anti-Retaliation Provision of OSHA’s Final Rule Is Now In Effect

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As we previously reported, in May, 2016, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced a final rule changing the way it collects, and employers report, workplace injury and illness data. Under these new...more

Bracewell LLP

Does Your Company Have "Reasonable" Procedures for Employee Reporting of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses Consistent with...

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OSHA’s May 12, 2016 final rule revising its recording and reporting regulations received a great deal of publicity, in large part, because of the new requirements beginning in 2017 for some employers to electronically submit...more

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What Employers Need to Know about OSHA’s New Reporting and Anti-Retaliation Regulations

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently implemented new regulations that will impact covered employers beginning on August 10, 2016. Specifically, these new regulations will require electronic...more

Miller Canfield

New OSHA Rule Could Affect Employers’ Drug Testing and Safety Incentives

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) intends to enhance its enforcement efforts against employers who OSHA believes are using drug testing and safety incentives to improperly reduce recordable work-related...more

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New OSHA rules on drug-testing, retaliation claims, and accident reporting

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Seyfarth Synopsis: OSHA’s new final rules call into question mandatory post-accident drug screenings and safety incentive programs, open the door to new retaliation citations, and will require employers to post OSHA logs...more

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Employers Should Evaluate Safety Incentive Programs and Drug Testing Policies in Light of New OSHA Rule

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently published a final rule revising its recordkeeping and reporting regulation to specifically state that employer policies for reporting workplace injuries and...more

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New OSHA Recordkeeping and Reporting Rule Mandates Electronic Submission, Online Publication of Employee Injuries

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) recently finalized a new rule governing injury and illness recordkeeping and reporting.1 Beginning in 2017, employers with 250 or more employees, and “high-risk”...more

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OSHA’s New Electronic Recordkeeping Rule Creates a Minefield for Employers

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On May 12, 2016, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) published its long-awaited electronic recordkeeping rule (“final rule”). The final rule creates numerous new recordkeeping obligations and additional...more

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP

New Federal Workplace Safety Rules Announced May 11

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) on Wednesday, May 11, finalized a new recordkeeping and reporting rule that requires employers in certain industries to electronically submit injury and illness...more

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OSHA Issues Rule Requiring Employers to Publish Workplace Injuries

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The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) has issued a new rule requiring certain employers to submit electronic copies of their OSHA Injury and Illness Logs so OSHA can publish employers’ Logs on OSHA’s public...more

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OSHA's Final Rule on Electronic Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses

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In keeping with Assistant Secretary of Labor Dr. David Michaels’ promise to “shame” employers into compliance, on May 12, 2016, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published its final rule on electronic...more

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