David Michaels, assistant Labor Secretary, has made a new video outlining the new rules for reporting employee injuries that went into effect last Thursday, Jan. 1. You can view the video here:<\/p>\n
New OSHA Rules on Reporting Employee Injuries<\/a><\/p>\n The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration has changed the requirement for reporting employee injuries. E<\/span>mployers must now be report all work-related fatalities to OSHA within eight hours after they occur, and all in-patient hospitalizations, amputations, and losses of an eye with 24 hours.<\/p>\n Previously to the new rules, employers were only required to report all workplace fatalities and when three or more workers were hospitalized in the same incident.<\/p>\n New Rules Improve Worker Safety<\/strong><\/p>\n According to OSHA, the new updated reporting requirements have a life saving purpose.<\/p>\n “They will enable employers and workers to prevent future injuries by identifying and eliminating the most serious workplace hazards,” OSHA officials stated during a\u00a0Twitter conversation<\/a>\u00a0held December 11 \u00a0to outline the new rules.<\/p>\n Three Reporting Methods<\/strong><\/p>\n Employers have three options for reporting these severe incidents to OSHA:<\/p>\n 1. They can call their nearest area OSHA office during normal business hours.<\/p>\n 2. They can call the 24-hour OSHA hotline at 1-800-321-OSHA (1-800-321-6742)<\/p>\n 3. They can report incidents online at\u00a0www.osha.gov\/report_online<\/a>.<\/p>\n More information about the new rules, including Frequently Asked Questions, can be found on Dr. Michael’s blog<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" David Michaels, assistant Labor Secretary, has made a new video outlining the new rules for reporting employee injuries that went into effect last Thursday, Jan. 1. You can view the video here: New OSHA Rules on Reporting Employee Injuries The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration has changed the requirement for reporting employee injuries. Employers … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,293],"tags":[1079],"class_list":["post-7241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-material-handling","category-news","tag-material-handling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12375,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241\/revisions\/12375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}