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On September 28, 2011, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced that it was reopening the rulemaking record to extend the comment period on revising the recordkeeping and reporting requirements for work-related injuries and illnesses.
In the June 22, 2011 Federal Register, OSHA published a proposal to update Appendix A to Subpart B of its Injury and Illness Recording and Reporting regulations. Appendix A contains a list of industries that are partially exempt from maintaining records of occupational injuries and illnesses, generally due to their relatively low rates of occupational injury and illness. The current list of industries is based on the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration reopened the public comment period May 17 on its controversial proposal to re-establish a column for musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) on the OSHA 300 recordkeeping log. According to a notice published in the May 17 Federal Register (see attachment below) these public comments must be submitted by June 16.
ORC filed comments to OSHA March 30, 2010 in response to its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to restore a column to the OSHA 300 Log that employers would use to record work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). This proposed rule would require employers to place a check mark in the MSD column, instead of the column they currently mark, if a case is an MSD that meets the Recordkeeping regulation's general recording requirements. OSHA’s purpose in restoring the column is to improve the accuracy and completeness of national occupational injury and illness statistics; provide valu
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