OSHA Aims To Boost Injury Reporting Rule Compliance With Its Injury Tracking Application Enforcement Program

Seyfarth Synopsis: As we previously blogged, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to expand requirements for employers to submit OSHA forms via its Injury Tracking Application (ITA). Now the agency has issued enforcement guidance instructing OSHA how to identify and enforce potential violations of the OSHA rule requiring electronic submittal of injury and illness records.

In an apparent attempt to make it easier for each OSHA Area Office to identify covered employers who have not submitted OSHA 300A yearly summaries to OSHA's ITA within the required timeframe, the Directors of OSHA's Directorate of Technical Support and Emergency Management and Directorate of Enforcement Programs issued enforcement guidance for OSHA Regional Administrators on April 4, 2022. According to the guidance,