From: GinPress |The official semi-private blog of the Southeastern Cotton Ginners Association
by Dusty
According to an article from Jackson and Lewis’ OSHA Law Blog, OSHA submitted a draft final rule to Improve Tracking of Workplace Injury and Illnesses to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. OIRA is part of the office of Management and Budget and all federal rules roll through that office at some point before becoming final.
You will recall that a proposed record keeping rule was initially dropped back in the Fall of 2013. At the same time, we saw a proposed reporting rule. The Reporting Rule became final last year and went into full effect in January of 2015. The Record Keeping rule didn’t move but OSHA continued to reiterate it’s commitment to the rule. This movement in the OIRA could very well signal that OSHA is close (maybe by the end of the year) to a new record keeping rule according to the article.