OSHA issues Final Rule to Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses

OSHA announced on Monday that it is amending its occupational injury and illness recordkeeping regulation to require certain employers to electronically submit injury and illness information to OSHA that employers are already required to keep under the recordkeeping regulation.

Specifically, OSHA is amending its regulation to require establishments with 100 or more employees in certain designated industries, including foundries, to electronically submit information from their OSHA Forms 300 and 301 to OSHA once a year. The final rule is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on July 21, 2023, and available online at https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2023-15091 or https://www.govinfo.gov.

A copy of the Department of Labor news release regarding the expansion of submission requirements for injury and illness data is available at: https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDOL/bulletins/365ab85.