Washington — OSHA is requesting public touch upon a proposed rule hat would revise its harm and sickness recordkeeping regulation.
The company requires digital submissions of Type 300A – a yearly abstract of harm and sicknesses knowledge – for institutions with 250 or extra staff and people with 20 to 249 staff in sure high-hazard industries. An inventory of these industries is out there in Appendix A of 1904.41.
The proposal would change the regulation to require institutions with 100-plus staff in these high-hazard industries to submit harm and sickness knowledge from the extra detailed Forms 300 and 301, in addition to Form 300A, every year. Institutions with 20 or extra staff in sure high-hazard industries must submit knowledge solely from Type 300A.
OSHA is proposing to finish the digital reporting requirement for institutions with 250-plus staff that aren’t on the listing of high-hazard industries. Moreover, the company is in search of to replace its classification system that determines which industries are lined beneath its digital reporting necessities and to require institutions to incorporate an organization identify when submitting knowledge to the company.
“As a part of OSHA’s mission to guard employees and mitigate office hazards, this rule would enhance OSHA’s capability to make use of its enforcement and compliance help assets to determine workplaces the place employees are at excessive danger,” a March 28 press launch states. “The proposed rule would additionally advance the Division of Labor’s mission to empower employees by rising transparency within the workforce.”
The deadline to remark is Could 29.
