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Employers who meet certain size and industry requirements have until March 2, 2024 to electronically submit occupational injury and illness data from their Form 300A Annual Summary for 2023 to the federal Occupational Safety...more
On January 1, 2024, a new Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) Rule took effect: the Final Rule to Improve Tracking. OSHA has long required employers to track and maintain records regarding workplace...more
Current Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recordkeeping requirements, codified at 29 C.F.R. Part 1904, mandate that covered employers record certain work-related injuries and illnesses sustained by...more
Beginning in 2024, more than 52,000 employers must start complying with a new OSHA rule that requires employers with 100 or more employees in certain “high hazard” industries to electronically submit annual reports to OSHA of...more
Beginning January 1, employers in certain industries will need to begin electronic filing of their Form 300-Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses, and Form 301-Injury and Illness Incident Report. The requirement applies...more
On Monday, July 17, 2023, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced a long-anticipated update to its rule requiring electronic submission of injury and illness data. The updated rule goes into effect...more
In an era of fluctuating obligations, ramped-up enforcement and increased penalties, employers are wise to ensure they are fully compliant with current Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recordkeeping and...more
Federal workplace safety officials are once again proposing amendments to occupational injury and illness recordkeeping rules that would require certain employers to electronically submit injury and illness information to...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is proposing to amend its occupational injury and illness recordkeeping regulation, 29 CFR 1904.41. The current regulation requires certain employers to...more
An important deadline is upon us: March 2, 2020, is the deadline for electronically reporting OSHA Form 300A data for calendar year 2019. In 2016, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) amended its...more
On January 7, 2020 OSHA used its Twitter account to remind covered employers to electronically submit the OSHA 300A summary for 2019 by no later than March 2, 2020. Covered employers for this purpose are those with...more
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
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires most employers with 10 or more employees to track and report all work-related injuries and illnesses via Forms 300 (Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses)...more
In a controversial, complete reversal of itself, OSHA recently issued a final rule, entitled Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses (84 FR 380), which removes the requirement for employers who have 250 or more...more
Public service announcement: Saturday is your last day to submit electronically to OSHA your 2018 OSHA Form 300A – the annual summary of injuries and illnesses at your workplaces. What’s this all about? Read on…...more
Public health organizations filed a lawsuit against the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) seeking to rescind the agency’s electronic recordkeeping rule. Back in 2016, OSHA issued a new regulation...more
While the increased civil monetary penalties may impact an employer’s bottom line, OSHA did provide welcome relief to employers just two days later. ...more
In 2016 the Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a Rule intended to improve the tracking of workplace injuries and illnesses, known as the Electronic Recordkeeping Rule. ...more
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
On Jan. 25, 2019, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) partially rescinded a rule that required some employers to electronically submit to OSHA injury and illness data that included personal identifying...more
On January 25, 2019, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) issued a final rule rescinding controversial requirements from the 2016 Rule to Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses (the “2016...more
Last week, the years-long saga of OSHA’s 2016 injury and illness record-keeping rule took another turn, leaving many employers confused about what obligations they have to submit injury records to OSHA. In this quick-and-easy...more
Despite the partial shutdown, some Federal agencies were still hard at work. Count the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) among them. ...more
OSHA has finalized a rule that rescinds the requirement for establishments with 250 or more employees to electronically submit their OSHA Form 300 (Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses) and Form 301 (Injury and Illness...more
On January 25, 2019, OSHA published a final rule that rescinded a requirement adopted in 2016 for establishments with 250 or more employees to electronically submit to OSHA information from their OSHA Forms 300 and 301. Those...more