OSHA has extended by 30 days the public comment period on a contentious planned rule unveiled last fall that would require quarterly electronic reporting of OSHA logs by large companies, to March 8, 2014 -- bowing to calls from industry for more time to review and prepare feedback on the proposed regulations, which eventually would result in injury and illness data logged by employers being put on the web.
An advocacy group in Washington notes recent progress by OSHA on several substantial regulatory initiatives – especially a proposed new rule on crystalline silica and changes to recordkeeping requirements that would put data on workplace injury reports online – as signaling a departure from what the group calls a static regulatory process.
OSHA plans to require quarterly electronic reporting of injuries and illnesses at companies with 250 or more workers under a proposed rule that amounts to a revolutionary change in the way OSHA gathers data, though officials say the shift does not alter employers' basic recordkeeping duties.
OSHA plans to unveil as soon as Thursday (Nov. 7) a proposed rule aimed at modernizing injury and illness recordkeeping requirements under the OSH Act, a source familiar with OSHA's plans regarding the rulemaking tells Inside OSHA Online.