Executive Summary: Beginning in January 2024, employers in certain high-hazard industries will be required to submit detailed information regarding recordable workplace injuries and illnesses using OSHA’s new filing system...more
On January 24, 2019, citing a need to protect worker privacy, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a final rule eliminating the requirement that businesses with 250 or more workers electronically...more
On July 27, 2018, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a news release stating that it has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to “better protect personally identifiable information or data that...more
8/6/2018
/ Construction Industry ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Electronic Filing ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
OSHA ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Workplace Injury ,
Workplace Safety
On November 21, 2017, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) extended the date by which employers must electronically report injury and illness data through the Injury Tracking Application (ITA)...more
In May 2016, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) promulgated the Record Keeping Modernization Rule (the Rule) which required certain employers to submit injury and illness data electronically and...more
A federal judge on November 28 refused to block implementation of the anti-retaliation provisions of OSHA’s recordkeeping and reporting rule scheduled to take effect December 1, 2016. The business groups challenging the rule...more
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
6/21/2016
/ Anti-Retaliation Provisions ,
Drug Testing ,
Electronic Filing ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employer Mandates ,
Incentives ,
OSHA ,
Recordkeeping Requirements ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Workplace Injury ,
Workplace Safety
On September 11, 2014, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced a final rule changing the list of establishments required to keep records and reporting of work-related injuries. The new rule goes...more