Public Citizen: Proposed change in injury/illness reporting would fix current lag
Are corporations more concerned about reputations than worker safety?
Advocacy group Public Citizen is characterizing opposition to OSHA’sproposal to require electronic reporting of injury and illness data as corporations worried about being “named and shamed” due to the data will be posted online.
The rule would amend current reporting requirements to require all workplaces with 250 or more employees to electronically send all of their injury and illness data to OSHA quarterly. The improved tracking system also would require workplaces with 20 or more employees, in certain industries with high injury and illness rates, to electronically send their annual summary data to OSHA once a year. Presently, employers submit such reports on paper, and there is a significant lag in processing the data.