OSHA has issued a final rule to delay the electronic reporting compliance date of the Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses rule from July 1, 2017 (actually it was December 1, 2017) to December 15, 2017. The reason given is to provide employers the same four month window for submitting data that the original rule would have provided.
The actual deadline had been December 1, 2017 to report 2016 OSHA 300A data for employers in manufacturing industries with 20-250 employees in most states. Employers in state plan states- California, Maryland, Minnesota, South Carolina, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming were not required to comply
Here is the link to today’s OSHA News Release.
According to the agency “OSHA is currently reviewing the other provisions of its final rule to Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses, and intends to publish a notice of proposed rulemaking to reconsider, revise, or remove portions of that rule in 2018.”
We have been following this rule since we testified against it back in 2014.
We have posted on this from time to time
OSHA Mandatory Reporting Delayed
OSHA Clarifies Reporting Rule
Department of Shaming?
PMPA gave our members a step by step guide to how to report earlier this week.
The final rule will be published in the Federal Register on Friday, November 24, 2017. Here is the public inspection version
Tag: OSHA mandatory Electronic Injury and Illness Reporting Delayed
No Formal Announcement. Why?
No Entry in the Federal Register. Why?
No Official Statement. Why?
Just a tiny little update buried in the middle of the OSHA Injury and Illness reporting Web page. We discovered it while doing some fact checking to make sure that we gave our members advance notice of the new reporting requirements which would have been July 1, 2017!
Since OSHA hasn’t even given us the courtesy of a formal statement, we have no idea how long the delay will last.
But here are some questions we’d ask the agency that threatens our shops with fines and penalties for non-compliance with their dictates:
- Have you set up that electronic infrastructure (secure computer system) for our reporting to be entered that you assured us at the hearing would be available?
- Have you hired contractors to create that secure computer system for our reporting to be entered?
- Have you tested the security protocols on this secure electronic system so that employers and their employees can be assured of the security of our data?
Note to shops- despite the Agency’s inability to hit its own deadlines, you can be assured that the retaliation provisions of this rule and their new take on “employee right to report” will remain enforceable.
Our original post on this rule
Link to OSHA Injury and Illness Recordkeeping Page
No Formal Announcement. Why?
No Entry in the Federal Register. Why?
No Official Statement. Why?
Just a tiny little update buried in the middle of the OSHA Injury and Illness reporting Web page. We discovered it while doing some fact checking to make sure that we gave our members advance notice of the new reporting requirements which would have been July 1, 2017!
Since OSHA hasn’t even given us the courtesy of a formal statement, we have no idea how long the delay will last.
But here are some questions we’d ask the agency that threatens our shops with fines and penalties for non-compliance with their dictates:
- Have you set up that electronic infrastructure (secure computer system) for our reporting to be entered that you assured us at the hearing would be available?
- Have you hired contractors to create that secure computer system for our reporting to be entered?
- Have you tested the security protocols on this secure electronic system so that employers and their employees can be assured of the security of our data?
Note to shops- despite the Agency’s inability to hit its own deadlines, you can be assured that the retaliation provisions of this rule and their new take on “employee right to report” will remain enforceable.
Our original post on this rule
Link to OSHA Injury and Illness Recordkeeping Page