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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

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Signs that OSHA Priorities are Shifting Under the Trump Administration?

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There are new developments related to OSHA’s Electronic Recordkeeping Rule and the Volks Rule. As a reminder, the Electronic Recordkeeping Rule requires certain employers to electronically file their OSHA recordkeeping data...more

Franczek P.C.

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

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New Electronic Reporting Rule for Workplace Injuries in Effect

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OSHA’s new rule requiring employers to electronically submit data on workplace injuries and illnesses went into effect yesterday, December 1, 2016. Actual electronic submissions to OSHA, however, do not begin until July 2017....more

Saul Ewing LLP

OSHA’s New Rule Will Impact Employer Post-Accident Drug Testing Policies

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On November 28, 2016, a Texas federal judge denied a request for a preliminary injunction, which sought to enjoin implementation of the anti-retaliation provisions of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s...more

Stinson LLP

Big Changes Coming with New OSHA Rule on Electronic Reporting of Workplace Injuries

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Effective January 1, 2017, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will begin enforcing its new rule on electronic reporting of workplace injuries and illnesses. Although the final rule was issued on May 12,...more

Conn Maciel Carey LLP

OSHA’s Recordkeeping Anti-Retaliation Rule: Assault on Pizza Parties, Drug Tests and Exec Compensation

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OSHA’s recent Injury and Illness Recordkeeping reform has created quite a stir for employers. As we discussed in an earlier article about the new Recordkeeping rule, OSHA now requires employers to electronically submit to...more

Fisher Phillips

Will Post-Accident Drug Testing Still Be Allowed Under New OSHA Rules?

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When the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced its May 2016 Electronic Recordkeeping Rule, most employers focused on the Rule’s increased reporting requirements and the imminent public posting of...more

Dentons

Employers: August 10th Deadline to Comply with Updated OSHA Rule

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In May, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published its final rule on electronic reporting of workplace injuries and illnesses. The new rule enhances an employer’s obligation to ensure that employees...more

Poyner Spruill LLP

OSHA's New Rule Impacts the Health Care Industry

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The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently issued a final rule that becomes effective January 1, 2017 requiring healthcare industry employers to electronically submit to OSHA injury and illness...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Mark Your Calendar! Deadline on New OSHA Recordkeeping Rule is Around the Corner

Employers should note the August 10, 2016, deadline for compliance with the anti-retaliation provisions of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) new electronic recordkeeping and reporting rules. Other...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Employer Groups Sue To Block OSHA’s Drug Testing Provisions

A number of employers and employer groups — including the National Association of Manufacturers and Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc. — filed suit last week in a federal court in Texas seeking to block parts of the...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

Troutman Pepper

OSHA Rulemaking Increases Reporting Obligations

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Beginning in 2017, employers will be required to affirmatively submit to OSHA whatever injury/illness information and forms they were already required to compile....more

BCLP

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

Clark Hill PLC

New OSHA Reporting Rule

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) new rule to Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses takes effect in two phases on August 10, 2016 and January 1, 2017. Beginning August 10, 2016, the...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

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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OSHA New Rules Address Post-Accident Drug Testing, Retaliation Claims, and Electronic Injury/Illness 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

Clark Hill PLC

OSHA Takes Hard Stance Against Automatic Post-Injury Drug Testing Policies - Employers Have Until August 10, 2016 to Comply

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Under the Occupation Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) new rule to Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses, many employers risk citation by OSHA for post-injury drug testing policies that were once...more

Franczek P.C.

OSHA Changes to Recordkeeping Rules Will Make Injury and Illness Data Public; Restricts Post-Incident Drug Testing and Safety...

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Claiming that it will “nudge” employers to focus on safety, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued a final rule which updates the way it collects, and employers report, workplace injury and...more

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OSHA’s New Electronic Accident Reporting Rule Seeks to Dramatically Impair Post-Accident Drug and Alcohol Testing

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Many thousands of employers implement post-accident drug and alcohol testing policies to promote workplace safety, as part of accident investigation efforts and in the hope of reducing workplace accidents and workers’...more

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