OSHA Publishes Evaluation of Severe Injury Reporting Program

Beginning January 1, 2015, OSHA changed its injury reporting rules to require employees to report to OSHA certain severe injuries and employee hospitalization within 24 hours.  We have previously blogged about that change in “OSHA Recordkeeping: Civil and Criminal Liabilities in 2015” and “OSHA Interpretation On New Reporting Rule For Amputations And Sight Loss.”

 

OSHA’s new reporting rules just completed their first year and OSHA has issued a report analyzing the data from this first year titled “Year One of OSHA’s Severe Injury Reporting Program: An Impact Evaluation” (Report) (March 17, 2016).

 

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