DOL Releases Final OIRA Injury and Illness Tracking Rule
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The DOL has released its final rule requiring certain employers in designated high-hazard industries to electronically submit injury and illness information to OSHA. The final rule is set to take affect on January 1st 2024, and includes these new submission requirements:
·Establishments with 100 or more employees in certain high-hazard industries must electronically submit information from their Form 300-Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses, and Form 301-Injury and Illness Incident Report to OSHA once a year. These submissions are in addition to submission of Form 300A-Summary of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses.
·To improve data quality, establishments are required to include their legal company name when making electronic submissions to OSHA from their injury and illness records.
The final rule also “retains requirements for electronic submission of information from Form 300A from establishments with 20-249 employees in certain high-hazard industries and from establishments with 250 or more employees in industries that must routinely keep OSHA injury and illness records”.
This new rule would affect many GCCA members, as it requires establishments with 20 or more employees in designated industries to continue to electronically submit to OSHA information in their 300A annual summary. It will also require establishments with 100 or more employees (in certain designated industries) to electronically submit information from their OSHA 300, 301, and 300A forms annually.
The DOL has stated that they will make public the data it collected which it used to inform its rule change(s). Assistant OSHA secretary Doug Parker comments, “Congress intended for the Occupational Safety and Health Act to include reporting procedures that would provide the agency and the public with an understanding of the safety and health problems workers face, and this rule is a big step in finally realizing that objective”. The complete OSHA Injury and Illness Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements can be found here.
