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A recent standard interpretation letter dated April 29, 2025, addressed whether employers may use software-generated documents in place of the OSHA-required injury and illness recordkeeping forms, specifically Forms 300...more
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is about to get a new leader. President Donald Trump has nominated David Keeling, a workplace safety veteran with experience at UPS and Amazon, to take the lead at the...more
For the very first time, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has publicized the comprehensive details on the nearly 900,000 reported workplace injuries and illnesses recorded by...more
Recently, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) made nearly a decade of serious event reporting data—from January 1, 2015, through December 31, 2023—publicly available for review and study via OSHA’s new...more
When are employee musculoskeletal illnesses and injuries required to be recorded and reported to federal workplace safety officials? The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently released a new memorandum...more
In an enforcement memorandum dated May 2, 2024, OSHA provided guidance on whether musculoskeletal injuries are recordable under three treatment scenarios: first aid, Active Release Technique (ART) (massage that targets soft...more
Senate Bill 553, signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom, requires nearly all employers in the State of California to prepare a Workplace Violence Prevention Plan, train employees on how to identify and avoid workplace...more
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
As we reported at the time, in summer 2023 the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a new final rule amending its occupational injury and illness recordkeeping regulation and imposing new electronic...more
Remember injury and illness data must be reported to OSHA electronically by March 2, 2024. OSHA does not send out notifications or reminders to establishments to report injury and illness data (i.e., required data from the...more
Many employers annually submit injury and illness Form 300A data through OSHA’s Injury Tracking Application (ITA). For the first time in 2024, employers with 100 or more employees identified in an updated “high-hazard...more
On July 17, 2023, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a new final rule amending its occupational injury and illness recordkeeping regulation and imposing new electronic reporting requirements on...more
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has released a final rule to restore and expand Obama-era requirements for employers in dozens of designated industries that have worksites with at least 100 employees...more
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has announced a revision of its injury and illness electronic filing regulation, 29 CFR § 1904.41. Scheduled to be published in the Federal Register tomorrow and to go into...more
On July 17, 2023, OSHA released its final rule expanding its electronic recordkeeping and reporting requirements. As expected, the rule largely mimics OSHA’s 2022 proposal and takes effect January 1, 2024. The rule requires...more
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released its revised electronic recordkeeping regulation, “Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses,” on July 17. Most significantly, the revised regulation...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
On April 7, 2023, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) submitted its latest injury and illness recordkeeping proposal to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). The proposed changes to the...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
This is a friendly reminder that certain employers covered by the OSHA 300 recordkeeping standard must submit electronic copies of the 300A to OSHA by March 2, 2023 using the OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA). Covered...more
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has published a proposed rule to restore and expand Obama-era requirements for high-hazard employers with at least 100 employees to submit their injury and illness...more
Shortly after the administration change in January 2021, we mentioned that the electronic occupational injury and illness recordkeeping requirements published during the Obama administration in May 2016 might return. The...more
On May 19, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor issued two COVID-19 related Enforcement Memos to provide updated guidance to OSHA investigators...more
On Tuesday, May 19, 2020, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued new enforcement guidance regarding an employer’s obligation to record cases of COVID-19 on the OSHA injury and illness logs. The new...more
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Act and its implementing regulations require employers to record certain work-related injuries and illnesses. Due to the prevalence of community transmission of COVID-19, deciding...more