OSHA Rolls Out Web-based Injury Reporting

A year after OSHA promised employers it would provide an online method for reporting injuries and fatalities, the agency activated a Web page Dec. 24, 2015.
 
The form allows employers to satisfy the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s rule requiring employers to provide notification of fatalities within eight hours and hospitalizations, amputations or eye losses within 24 hours.
 
The rule requiring hospitalization and injury notification took effect for federal OSHA jurisdictions on Jan. 1, 2015.
 
At the time, OSHA officials said an online form would be provided that employers could use ...

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