REGULATIONS: OSHA Updates Its Regulations

REGULATIONS

OSHA Updates Its Regulations

Learn how to implement the revised reporting requirements


Regulations

ASCs are not required to keep OSHA Form 300, OSHA Form 300A and OSHA Form 301 unless their state requires them to do so.

REGULATIONS

OSHA Updates Its Regulations

Learn how to implement the revised reporting requirements

In 2013, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a proposed rule to improve the tracking of workplace injuries and illnesses through the electronic collection of establishment-specific injury and illness data. After receiving comments on the proposal, OSHA issued the final rule that became effective January 1, 2017 (Occupational Safety and Health Administration 29 CFR Part 1904). For more information on the final rule, click here. Although ASCs are partially exempt from some of the requirements in that rule, they are subject to a requirement that prohibits employers from discouraging workers from reporting an injury or illness.

 


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