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OSHA Announces New Requirements for Reporting Severe Injuries, Updates Exempted Industries List
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HE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR’S OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY and Health Administration (OSHA) announced a
fi nal rule on Sept. 11 requiring employers to notify OSHA when an employee is killed on the job or suf- fers a work-related hospitalization, amputation or loss of an eye. The rule, which also updates the list of employ-
ers partially exempt from OSHA record-keeping re- quirements, will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2015, for workplaces under federal OSHA jurisdiction. The announcement follows preliminary results
from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ 2013 National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries. “Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported
that 4,405 workers were killed on the job in 2013. We can and must do more to keep America’s work- ers safe and healthy,” said U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez. “Workplace injuries and fatalities are absolutely preventable, and these new require- ments will help OSHA focus its resources and hold employers accountable for preventing them.” Under the revised rule, employers will be required
to notify OSHA of work-related fatalities within 8 hours, and work-related in-patient hospitalizations, amputations or losses of an eye within 24 hours. Previously, OSHA’s regulations required an employer to report only work-related fatalities and in-patient hospitalizations of 3 or more employees. Reporting
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single hospitalizations, amputations or loss of an eye was not required under the previous rule. All employers covered by the Occupational Safety
and Health Act, even those who are exempt from maintaining injury and illness records, are required to comply with OSHA’s new severe injury and ill- ness reporting requirements. To assist employers in fulfi lling these requirements, OSHA is developing a web portal for employers to report incidents elec- tronically, in addition to the phone reporting options. In addition to the new reporting requirements,
OSHA has also updated the list of industries that, due to relatively low occupational injury and illness rates, are exempt from the requirement to routinely keep injury and illness records. The previous list of exempt industries was based
on the old Standard Industrial Classifi cation system and the new rule uses the North American Industry Classifi cation System to classify establishments by industry. The new list is based on updated injury and illness
data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The new rule maintains the exemption for any employer with 10 or fewer employees, regardless of their industry classifi cation, from the requirement to routinely keep records of worker injuries and illnesses. For more information, visit OSHA’s website, www.
osha.gov/recordkeeping2014.
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