On April 10, 2020, the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA) issued interim guidance regarding enforcement of
employers' obligation to record employees' COVID-19
cases. The guidance recognizes that determining whether an
employee contracted COVID-19 at work will generally be difficult,
and, accordingly, relaxes many employers' recordkeeping
obligations for COVID-19 cases during the pandemic.
The new guidance first reiterates the three criteria—
previously addressed in our FAQ series—that would render
an employee's COVID-19 case recordable:
No. 33: Do I have to record my employee's confirmed case of
COVID-19 on my OSHA 300 log?
Employers may have to record the confirmed case of COVID-19 on
their OSHA 300 log under certain circumstances. While OSHA
regulations state that the common cold or flu is generally not
recordable, OSHA indicates that COVID-19 can be a recordable
illness "when a worker is infected as a result of performing
their
