On July 17, 2023, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a new final rule amending its occupational injury and illness recordkeeping regulation and imposing new electronic ...
On May 12, 2016, OSHA published the final version of new workplace injury reporting rules intended to “Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses.” Among other changes, the rules clarify the ...
Ever since OSHA published its long-awaited final rule updating electronic injury and illness reporting requirements in its Recordkeeping Standard earlier this year, EHS professionals have had many ...
The U.S. Dept. of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration is advancing plans for an expanded recordkeeping and reporting rule that has drawn concern from construction industry groups who ...
In an effort to increase transparency of workplace injuries and OSHA’s ability to target employers with specific hazards, effective January 1, 2024, OSHA is requiring business establishments with 100 ...
Each year many organizations struggle with the OSHA reporting and recordkeeping requirements for illnesses and injuries sustained by employees in the workplace. No one wants to report or record an ...
Documents are revealing what happened with South Carolina OSHA’s fine against Santee Cooper after a deadly coal mound ...
The Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires employers to report certain serious injuries by telephone within twenty-four (24) hours. Injuries that must be reported ...
States are pushing the Trump administration to change course on narrowing use of a catch-all federal workplace-safety ...
Any employer who fails to report a fatal injury or the serious injury or illness of an employee to Cal/OSHA within eight hours of its occurrence now faces a minimum penalty of $5,000, 10 times the ...
A large manufacturing plant in central Tennessee had a robust safety program. The safety director physically toured the plant twice a week, always taking with him a department head or supervisor to ...