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Effective date
For workplaces under Federal OSHA jurisdiction
•Final rule becomes effective January 1, 2015
Industry exemptions
• The rule also updates the list of industries that are partially exempt
from the requirement to routinely keep OSHA injury & illness
records (e.g. the OSHA 300 log), due to relatively low occupational
injury & illness rates.
• The new rule retains the exemption for any firm with ten or fewer
employees, regardless of their industry classification, from the
requirement to routinely keep records.
• Reminder: All employers, even those exempt from recordkeeping
requirements, must report a work-related fatality, in-patient
hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye to OSHA.
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Industry exemptions
• The previous list of exempt industries was based on the old
Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system, as well as injury &
illness data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) from 1996,
1997 & 1998.
Newly
included
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www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/tutorial
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