Key advisers to OSHA are staking out a broad position backing initiatives to increase both the volume of data on occupational injuries and illnesses recorded and reported to the agency, as well as employer compliance with recordkeeping mandates, in a sweeping set of recommendations to OSHA. The move to pressure the agency on recordkeeping comes just as OSHA has published a proposed rule mandating stricter reporting requirements for worker hospitalizations and amputations, as well as making major changes to the classification of industry sectors to which recordkeeping rules apply. The classific
December 30, 2025