Before sharing sensitive information, make sure youre on a federal government site. An osha handbook providing an overview of the agency, its regulatory responsibilities, policies, procedures and programs. The regulation and related interpretations for recording and reporting occupational injuries and illnesses. Whats new in 2017 recent provisions to the occupational safety and health administration. Compliance directive cpl 2005 osha recordkeeping contacts. Covered establishments are only required to electronically submit information from the osha form 300a summary of workrelated injuries and illnesses. The occupational safety and health administration osha in the u. The ultimate guide to osha recordkeeping 2020 industrysafe. This guide is provided as an introduction to osha recordkeeping forms and requirements. Recent provisions to the occupational safety and health administration osha s recordkeeping rule will take effect on january 1, 2017. Standard interpretations occupational safety and health. The date by which covered employers are required to submit to osha the information from their completed form 300a is march 2nd of the year after the calendar year covered by the form. First, the rule updates the list of industries that are exempt from the requirement to routinely keep osha injury and illness records, due to relatively low occupational injury and illness rates.
Osha recordkeeping can help the small business employer evaluate the success of safety and health activities. Osha recordkeeping handbook homeland security digital library. Oshas recordkeeping rule occupational safety and health. Final rule issued to improve tracking of workplace. This ruling, which became effective on january 1, 2017, requires establishments with 250 or more. Learn of precautions your employer should take any time temperatures are high and the job involves physical work. This instruction reintroduces the recordkeeping manual published as. Understand how oshas recordkeeping and reporting rules affect your business. Those businesses will be required to submit information from all 2017 forms 300a, 300, and 301 by july 1, 2018. Osha form 300a 2016 information by december 15, 2017. Osha published a final rule to amend its recordkeeping regulation to remove the requirement to electronically submit to osha information from the osha form 300 log of workrelated injuries and illnesses and osha form 301 injury and illness incident report for establishments with 250 or more employees that are required to routinely keep injury. For purposes of osha recordkeeping the employer would stop the count of the days of restricted work activity due to the first case, the shoulder injury, and enter the foot injury as a new case and record the number of restricted work days. Osha issues antiretaliation enforcement procedures. Osha injury and illness recordkeeping and reporting.
Employer safety incentive and disincentive policies and practices. The injury tracking application ita is accessible from the ita launch page, where you are able to provide the agency your osha form 300a information. Even oshas online recordkeeping handbook of which few employers are aware inadequately addresses the point. You must consider an injury or illness to meet the general recording criteria, and therefore to be recordable, if it.