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OSHA Provides Webinar and Instructional Materials to Instruct Employers On New Obligations in Using OSHA’s Injury Tracking...

Seyfarth Synopsis: As a new update this year, certain employes are required to submit OSHA Form 300, 301 and 300A online.  OSHA recently offered a webinar on using it’s Injury Tracking Application (ITA) to submit this data....more

OSHA Aims to Boost Injury Reporting Rule Compliance with its Injury Tracking Application Enforcement Program

Seyfarth Synopsis: As we previously blogged, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to expand requirements for employers to submit OSHA forms via its Injury Tracking...more

Reverse Course! OSHA Again to Require Employers to Electronically Submit OSHA 300 Logs and 301 Reports

Seyfarth Synopsis: OSHA intends to restore an Obama-era requirement that employers submit OSHA 300 logs and OSHA 301 reports electronically, ostensibly to improve the Agency’s data and to potentially target employers with...more

OSHA Issues First COVID-19 Citation for Untimely Reporting of Hospitalizations

Seyfarth Synopsis: OSHA issued its first COVID-19 citation to a Georgia nursing home. The citation alleges a failure to report within 24-hours a work-related incident resulting in hospital admissions....more

OSHA Issues Revised Enforcement Guidance for Recordingkeeping of COVID-19 Cases

Seyfarth Synopsis: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has adopted a Revised Enforcement Guidance for Recording Cases of COVID-19. Under the OSHA regulations and the revised guidance, most cases of...more

EPA Adds PFAS to 313 Reporting for 2020

Seyfarth Synopsis: This U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its final rule to add per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to the list of chemicals required to be reported annually under the EPCRA Section...more

ANOTHER Chemical Release Reporting Obligation????

Seyfarth Synopsis: The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) has proposed new accidental chemical release reporting requirements that are broad in scope and would cover additional chemicals, threshold...more

OSHA Tweets Out a Reminder – Summary of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses Form 300A for Calendar Year 2019 are Due March 2

Seyfarth Synopsis: Establishments with 250 or more employees that are currently required to keep OSHA injury and illness records, and establishments with 20-249 employees that are classified in specific industries with...more

Six States Sue – Alleging that Trump Administration Electronic Reporting Rule is Unlawful

Seyfarth Synopsis: According to several states that have sued the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in Federal Court, the Agency did not provide sufficient justification to rollback the electronic reporting rule...more

On And On We Go – Coalition Groups Sue DOL For The Rollback Rule

Seyfarth Synopsis: OSHA has just been sued for removing the requirements for establishments with 250 or more employees to electronically submit information from OSHA Form 300 (Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses), and...more

OSHA Issues New Rule That Companies Are Not Required To Submit OSHA 300 And 301 Forms Electronically

Seyfarth Synopsis: OSHA has just issued its final rule that removes the requirement for establishments with 250 or more employees to electronically submit information from OSHA Form 300 (Log of Work-Related Injuries and...more

Emergency Regulation Approved! Electronic Submission of CY 2017 Form 300A Required by December 31, 2018 for California Employers

Seyfarth Synopsis: On November 6, 2018, the California Office of Administrative Law approved Cal/OSHA’s emergency regulation for the electronic submission of CY 2017 Form 300A on Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Covered...more

OSHA Has Begun Using Electronically Filed 300A Data to Target Specific Industries and Facilities

Seyfarth Synopsis:  The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has initiated a Site-Specific Targeting 2016 (SST-16) Program using the injury and illness information electronically submitted by employers to...more

California Enacts New Record-Keeping Mandates In Response To Changing Federal Program

Seyfarth Synopsis: Last week, Governor Brown signed into law Assembly Bill No. 2334, Occupational Injuries and Illness, Employer Reporting Requirements, and Electronic Submission....more

Failure To Follow Company Own Internal Procedures Can Be Used Against It In OSHA 11(c) Retaliation Case

A recent Eastern District of Wisconsin case held that an OSHA 11(c) retaliation claim will survive summary judgment where the employer failed to comply with its own investigation procedures....more

All State Plan Employers are Now Required to Electronically File 2017 Form 300A Data

Seyfarth Synopsis: To be compliant, employers in State Plans that have not yet adopted OSHA’s new rule for electronic filing of injury data for Calendar Year 2017, are required to file in the federal OSHA database....more

OSHA Accepting 2016 Electronically Submitted Injury, Illness Reports through December 31 AND Intends to Significantly Revise the...

Seyfarth Synopsis: OSHA’s has indicated in a news release that it “will continue accepting 2016 OSHA Form 300A data through the Injury Tracking Application (ITA) until midnight on December 31, 2017.”...more

OSHA Delays Electronic Filing Date for Injury and Illness Records Until December 1, 2017

Seyfarth Synopsis: OSHA has proposed to delay the reporting compliance deadline, until December 1, 2017, for certain employers to electronically file injury and illness data....more

Judge Continues Case Challenging OSHA Electronic Record-Keeping Rule – Employers Must Comply With July 1 Electronic Reporting...

Seyfarth Synopsis: A Texas federal court won’t decide the legality of OSHA’s rule regarding the “Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses” until after the July 1, 2017 deadline for employers to comply with the rule....more

Congress Moves to Invalidate OSHA Rule Which Provides Employers Can Be Cited for Five-Years For Injury and Illness Records

Seyfarth Synopsis: Congress passes a Resolution to dismantle an OSHA final rule, adopted in December 2016, which despite statutory language to the opposite, “more clearly states employers’ obligations” to record an injury or...more

OSHA’s New Electronic Reporting and Anti-Retaliation Rule Challenged By Industry Groups in Oklahoma

Seyfarth Synopsis: Business organizations have once again brought suit against OSHA’s new electronic reporting and retaliation rule, arguing that the proposed online database violates employers’ First and Fifth Amendment...more

Court Denies Preliminary Injunction on New OSHA Rules on Drug-Testing, Retaliation Claims, and Accident Reporting

Seyfarth Synopsis: The Federal District Court has denied industry’s request to enjoin OSHA’s new rules on mandatory post-accident drug screenings and safety incentive programs, workplace retaliation, and requiring employers...more

Despite Lawsuit, OSHA Publishes Interpretation for New Workplace Injury and Illness Reporting Rule

Seyfarth Synopsis: Despite an ongoing lawsuit over its rules, OSHA issues interpretation for its May 2016 retaliation and recordkeeping rule. We previously blogged that OSHA had again delayed, to December 1, 2016,...more

OSHA Again Delays Enforcement Date for New Workplace Injury and Illness Reporting Rule

Seyfarth Synopsis: After a lawsuit was filed against OSHA challenging its May 2016 retaliation and recordkeeping rule, OSHA again delays the rule’s effective date. OSHA announced today that it has again delayed the...more

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