The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) recently finalized a new rule governing injury and illness recordkeeping and reporting.1 Beginning in 2017, employers with 250 or more employees, and “high-risk” industries with more than 20 employees, must annually submit injury reports to an OSHA-run public website.
The most immediate effect of this rule is employee injury and illness data will be freely accessible to anyone online. This will result in much greater scrutiny of an employer’s safety record by OSHA, competitors, and the general public. The rule also codifies and adds more enforcement leverage to OSHA’s current practice of scrutinizing certain safety incentive programs and disciplinary policies to make sure employers do not discourage employees from reporting injuries or illnesses.
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