After years of attempts and months of delays, the Occupation Safety and Health Administration will begin enforcing its final rule requiring certain employers to electronically submit injury and illness data that they are already required to record on their onsite OSHA injury and illness form.
As Assistant Secretary of Labor, Dr. David Michaels puts it, “Our new rule will ‘nudge’ employers to prevent work injuries to show investors, job seekers, customers and the public they operate safe and well-managed facilities. Access to injury data also will help OSHA better target compliance assistance and enforcement resources, and enable ‘big data’ researchers to apply their skills to making workplaces safer.”