OSHA Injury and Illness Records: Next Round of Electronic Submissions Due July 1

In 2016, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) amended its recordkeeping rule to require that certain establishments electronically submit their illness and injury records annually, beginning in 2017. For the first year, covered establishments were only required to submit their OSHA Form 300A. The next round of submissions is due on July 1, 2018 and, in addition to the OSHA 300As, would have included the submission of OSHA 300 Logs and OSHA 301 Incident Reports for certain covered establishments. OSHA, however, is not accepting OSHA 300 Logs and OSHA 301 Incident Reports on its portal at this time. Therefore, OSHA has effectively changed the requirement for 2018: covered establishments need only submit their OSHA 300A forms by the July 1, 2018 due date.