Workplace Safety Lawyer Provides Insight into OSHA’s Proposed Amendments to Recordkeeping Rules

Micah Dickie talked to McKnight's Senior Living about the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA’s) proposed amendments to occupational injury and illness recordkeeping rules that would require certain employers to electronically submit injury and illness information to OSHA. He explained that under the proposed reporting requirement rule, in addition to submitting an annual summary, “…all senior living and skilled nursing operators with 20 or more employees would have to electronically submit their OSHA 300 logs and every OSHA Form 301 for each recordable injury or illness entered on the logs.” He warns that the proposed amendments “would increase employer obligation by a dramatic degree,” because they would result in “…a huge expansion of what employers must send to OSHA and will allow OSHA to obtain — and then publish to third parties — the specific injury and illness records that each senior living and skilled nursing operator keeps at their worksites.”

Micah’s full commentary can be found in the McKnight's Senior Living articles linked below:

• OSHA proposes change to recordkeeping regulation as agency works on final healthcare rule
• Proposed OSHA rule change could dramatically expand reporting requirements for senior living providers