On July 17, 2023, the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA) issued a new final rule amending its
occupational injury and illness recordkeeping regulation and
imposing new electronic reporting requirements on some employers.
The amended regulation will go into effect on January 1, 2024, and
comes just six months after OSHA issued two memorandasignaling a significant shift in
enforcement and increased penalties for OSHA violations.
New Reporting Requirements
Most notably, the new rule will require some employers to begin
electronically submitting information from OSHA Forms 300 and
301.
Form 300, Log of Work-Related Injuries and
Illnesses, is an annual record of work-related injuries and
illnesses, including information on the employee and the date,
location, description, and type of injury or illness.
