b"OSHA Injury and Illness RecordkeepingImprove Tracking of Workplace and Reporting RequirementsInjuries and IllnessesRecordkeeping RequirementsOSHA published a proposed rule, Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses on March 30, Many employers with more than 10 employees are2022 that would require: required to keep a record of serious work-related in-juries and illnesses. (Certain low-risk industries areEstablishments with 20 or more employees, in exempted.) Minor injuries requiring first aid only docertain high-hazard industries, continue tonot need to be recorded.electronically submit Form 300A Annual Summary information once a year to OSHA. How does OSHA define a recordable injury or illness?Establishments with 100 or more employees in the highest-hazard industries to submit Form 300 How does OSHA define first aid?Log and Form 301 Incident Report information once a year to OSHA. These establishments This information helps employers, workers andwould continue to be required to electronically OSHA evaluate the safety of a workplace, under- submit information from their Form 300A Annual stand industry hazards, and implement worker pro- Summary. tections to reduce and eliminate hazards -preventing future workplace injuries and illnesses.In addition, under the proposal, establishments with 250 or more employees, not in designated high-For information on recording cases of work-relatedhazard industries, would no longer be required to COVID-19 during the COVID-19 Pandemic, seeelectronically submit recordkeeping information to OSHA's COVID-19 Regulations page or OSHAsOSHA. COVID-19 page. The proposal was based on OSHAs preliminaryMaintaining and Posting Recordsdetermination that the electronic submission of establishment-specific and case-specific information The records must be maintained at the worksite forfrom the Forms 300 and 301 will improve workplace at least five years. Each February through April, safety and health by: employers must post a summary of the injuries and illnesses recorded the previous year. Also, if request- Allowing OSHA to use its resources more ed, copies of the records must be provided to currenteffectively by better enabling the Agency to iden-and former employees, or their representatives.tify workplaces where workers are at greatest risk from specific hazards, and to target itsGet recordkeeping forms 300, 300A, 301, andcompliance assistance and enforcement efforts additional instructionsaccordingly, Improving the ability of employers to compare Read the full OSHA Recordkeeping regulationtheir own injury and illness data on hazards with (29 CFR 1904)the data from similar establishments in the same industry, Severe Injury ReportingImproving the ability of stakeholders to make more informed decisions using recent establish-Employers must report any worker fatality within 8ment-specific, case-specific, injury/illness infor-hours and any amputation, loss of an eye, ormation, and hospitalization of a worker within 24 hours.Improving research on occupational safety and health. Learn details and how to report online or byThe comment period for the proposed rule has closed. phoneRead the proposed rule and the comments submitted by members of the public including workers and Forms:worker groups, affected industries, and other interest-Injury & Illness Recordkeeping Forms 300, 300A,ed parties. In addition, you may examine all support-301 ing materials for the proposed rule on this site. The next step in this rulemaking project will bedevelopment of the final rule. 19"