Safety Engineers Oppose Reporting Changes; Agency Reopens Docket Over Data Concerns

Safety engineers have come out against OSHA's proposal to beef up its recordkeeping and reporting rules, citing resource burdens on both the agency and employers. The American Society of Safety Engineers raised the concerns shortly before the agency decided to reopen the comment period on the proposal in response to other stakeholders' concerns about the data used in a separate part of the rulemaking that deals with industry exemptions. The agency proposes to reduce the threshold for reporting in-patient hospitalizations from three employees to one. The proposal would mandate that employers re