Insight & Commentary on Occupational Safety & Health Issues
OSHA has proposed changing the industries that would be generally exempt from maintaining regular workplace injury and illness records. Employers in exempt industries are not required to maintain OSHA 300 Logs, complete OSHA 301 incident report forms, or complete the OSHA 300A annual summary forms.
OSHA’s proposed rule also would require employers to report workplace amputations…
OSHA has announced that it will give employers in residential construction an additional three months to come into compliance with its new fall protection directive. OSHA published the new directive on December 16, 2010 and originally gave employers until June 16, 2011 to ensure their fall protection practices were compliant. The three month extension, according to OSHA…
OSHA has launched a survey of safety and health practices of private sector employers "as a tool toward better designing future rules, compliance assistance and outreach efforts." OSHA is surveying as many as 19,000 employers nationwide of all sizes and in all industries. Recipients of the survey can complete it either in hard copy form or electronically.
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