OSHA Publishes Proposed Rule to Increase Transparency Regarding Workplace Illnesses and Injuries
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published a proposed rule to amend its occupational injury and illness recordkeeping and reporting regulations. This proposed rule would reinstate aspects of regulations implemented under the Obama Administration that the Trump Labor Department rescinded.
The proposed rule would eliminate the requirement for all establishments with 250 or more employees (regardless of hazard level) to electronically submit information from the Form 300A to OSHA. Instead, it would require employers with 20 or more employees in construction and certain high-hazard industry sectors designated in Appendix A of the proposal by reference to the 2017 version of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) to continue to electronically submit information from their Form 300A annual summary to OSHA once a year.