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OSHA under Obama: The final year

With 12 months remaining until the presidential election, which regulatory agenda items can OSHA accomplish?

October 25, 2015

Kyle W. Morrison

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This time next year, the nation will be electing a new president, who could move OSHA in a different direction. What can the agency accomplish in the remaining months of the Obama administration? OSHA-watchers weigh in.

OMB begins review of OSHA’s final rule on electronic recordkeeping

October 9, 2015

Washington – An OSHA final rule that would require electronic recordkeeping and reporting is under review by the White House’s Office of Management and Budget.

Washington Update: The recordkeeping workaround

September 27, 2015

Kyle W. Morrison

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Three years ago, a court handed down a decision that restricted OSHA’s ability to cite employers for recordkeeping violations. Now the agency is hoping to work around that decision through a new proposed rule.

OSHA reversal: Injuries treated with kinesiology tape not recordable

July 13, 2015

Washington – OSHA has reversed an interpretation on the use of kinesiology tape to treat worker injuries, saying use of the elastic tape is considered first aid and injuries treated with it are not recordable.

Injuries treated with kinesiology tape are recordable, according to OSHA letter

January 26, 2015

An injury requiring kinesiology tape for treatment must be recorded on employers’ injury and illness logs, according to a recent OSHA letter of interpretation.

Employers must post OSHA 300 summary by Feb. 1

January 26, 2015

Beginning Feb. 1, employers required to keep and maintain an OSHA 300 injury and illness log must post their 300A summary sheet in the workplace.

New recordkeeping proposal: Good idea or burden?

January 22, 2015

Kyle W. Morrison

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Should site-controlling employers record injuries of other employers’ workers? At least one congressman thinks so.

Defining amputations, hospitalizations

December 5, 2014

Kyle W. Morrison

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A new OSHA rule going into effect Jan. 1 will require employers to report to the agency all work-related amputations and inpatient hospitalizations. So what exactly is an amputation or inpatient hospitalization?

PART TWO: OSHA RECORDKEEPING

More data, more problems?

A forthcoming rule may increase the amount and timeliness of injury data available to OSHA and the public. But stakeholders have concerns.

November 23, 2014

Kyle W. Morrison

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As OSHA prepares to issue a final rule that would significantly increase the amount of injury data it collects from employers – and release it to the public – stakeholder concerns continue. Among them: How OSHA will ensure the privacy of injured workers, and could the data unintentionally cast some employers in a bad light? (Part two of a two-part article.)

OSHA video highlights upcoming changes to reporting requirements

November 19, 2014

Washington – A Nov. 14 video from OSHA details upcoming changes to employers’ incident reporting requirements.