Employers Expect OSHA to Delay July 1 Filing Deadline

OSHA hasn’t reversed course on its new mandate that employers electronically file by July 1 summaries of the annual injury and illness logs they are required to keep.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration hasn’t opened the promised website for the employers to download their files, however, so safety consultants are expecting the agency to delay the requirement.

“We can’t comply if we can’t report,” Robert Box, principal consultant at Safety First Consulting, LLC in Georgetown, Texas, told Bloomberg BNA. “We’re waiting for direction from OSHA.”

The rule, issued in May 2016, requires about 466,000 employers to electronically file with ...