Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses,” a final rule issued by OSHA on May 12, 2016, is precedent-setting. For the first time in OSHA history, establishments with 250 or more employees and establishments with greater than 20 but less than 250 employees in certain named industries must now “electronically” submit information from the three recordkeeping forms these establishments already maintain, namely from the OSHA Forms 300A, 300, and 301.
The final rule also ensures that employees are involved in the recordkeeping system and that the employer cannot take any retaliatory or discriminatory action against an employee for reporting a work-related fatality, injury, or illness or for filing a safety and health complaint.