OSHA wants to change its injury and illness reporting rules again. They also launched an initiative to find employers who are not filing. Finding Non-Responders The federal government is strengthening its enforcement of injury and illness reporting requirements. OSHA is planning to proactively identify employers who fail to report specific annual data on Form 300A. […]
The year ahead will bring new OSHA rulemaking — including a revival of the Obama-era infectious disease standard. Infectious disease in the workplace OSHA plans to provide a draft version of an infectious disease standard in 2022. The proposed rule could require employers to protect workers from hazards like drug-resistant staph infections, tuberculosis, and severe […]
As the deadline for filing Form 300A approaches on March 2, employers operating in what OSHA defines as high-hazard industries are pulling together their Form 300 injury and illness records for 2019. Maybe you’ve done it already. The submission period started on January 2, 2020. If you haven’t sent anything to OSHA yet and need […]
There are two general categories of OSHA inspection: unprogrammed inspections that are triggered by a complaint, a severe accident or fatality, or some other observed and reported violation; and programmed inspections, which are proactively aimed at high-hazard industries, workplaces, occupations, safety/health hazards, or some other site-specific issue. This blog provides a quick review of OSHA’s […]