Under a new final rule, employers must begin complying with new workplace injury and illness reporting requirements starting Jan. 1, the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced Sept. 11.
Additionally, employer reports for some serious injuries and all deaths will be posted online at OSHA’s public website, agency administrator David Michaels said during a news conference that day about implementing the new record-keeping rule (RIN 1218-AC50).
The rule has two major components. It establishes new requirements for when employers must report certain serious injuries to OSHA, and it introduces a new industry classification system to determine whether ...
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