OSHA Issues Final Rule to Help Prevent Workplace Injuries and Illnesses

OSHA has issued a final rule that modernizes workplace injury data collection to help more effectively inform workers, employers, the public and OSHA about workplace hazards.

Employers in high-hazard industries will need to now send the injury and illness data that they already collect to OSHA, and that data will be posted on the OSHA website.

OSHA officials feel this public disclosure will motivate employers to focus more on the prevention of work-related injuries and illnesses.

This final rule also supports an employee’s right to report injuries and illnesses without worrying about retaliation.

The rule also requires employers with 250 or more employees (in industries that must follow the recordkeeping regulation) to electronically submit injury and illness information from OSHA Forms 300, 300A and 301 to OSHA. Companies with 20-249 employees must submit information from only OSHA Form 300A.

The new rule goes into effect on Aug. 10, 2016; phased in data submissions begin in 2017.

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