b'THE OFFICIAL NFBA MAGAZINEcontinued from page: 15industries included were chosen based on industry hazardousness and will be listed in the new Appendix B to 1904 Subpart E.As discussed above, the Final Rule sets the number of employees at 100 and will include employers that had 100 or more employees at any point during the previous calendar year. The count OSHA UPDATEwill include all full-time, part-time, temporary and seasonal employees.required to submit all of the information from Submissions will be due by March 2 for thethe forms except the following: (i) Employee previous calendar year.name (column B). In section (ii), the exception Employers should be aware that OSHA willextends to Employee name (field 1), employee plan to publish some of the data collectedaddress (field 2), name of physician or other health care professional (field 6), facility name ontheOSHAwebsite,inordertonotifyand address if treatment was given away from the employers, employees, potential employees,work site (field 7).From this we can see that employee representatives, current and potentialthe employer will be required to electronically customers, researchers and the general publicfile its OSHA 300 with the names of employees to access this information and make informedfound in column B of the OSHA 300 redacted. As decision about a companys workplace safety andto the OSHA 301, the employer will be required health record. OSHA has stated that it will notto file those forms but will be able to redact the collect or publish employee names or addresses,employee name, the employee address, the name names of health care professionals, or namesof physician or other health care professional, and addresses of facilities where treatment wasand the name of any facility where treatment provided if treatment was provided away fromwas provided if it was away from the work site. the worksite.WhiletheFinalRuleindicatesthatWith the Final Rule not in effect until January employers who will be covered by this rule shall1, 2024, affected employers should have time to submit information from their Form 300Logprepare for the new submission requirements of WorkRelated Injuries and Illnesses andandputaprocessinplacetoensuretheir Form 301Injury and Illness Incident Reportselectronic submissions are timely submitted. to OSHA once a year, the announcement byThere are many other clarifications to this new OSHA has not yet identified what informationrule which we will provide in a later article in shall be submitted or the format in which itmore detail. The intention of this article is to put shall be filed electronically with OSHA. Whenemployers on notice with regard to the basics this rule was initially discussed several yearsconcerning this new requirement. ago, one of the representations made was thatQuestions regarding this Final Rule, and/or this information would be posted on the OSHAits requirements?NFBA Members can use website and would be available to the public. Thetheir NFBA Legal Services Plan to contact Gary rule will be found in recordkeeping standardAuman at 937-223-6003.1904.41. Section 1904.41 (b)(9) reads: you are 16 / FRAME BUILDER - AUG2023'