DOL Renews Boring Injury Reporting Forms, Yawn
Published Date: 2/27/2025
Notice
Summary
The Department of Labor wants your thoughts on how employers keep track of work injuries and illnesses. This info helps keep workers safe and creates national safety stats. Employers, especially those with risky jobs, should note comments are due by March 31, 2025, with no big cost changes expected.
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
Data used for workplace safety enforcement
You (workers) benefit because OSHA will use employers' injury and illness records to carry out intervention and enforcement activities to help guarantee safe and healthful workplaces. The same data are used by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to produce national statistics on occupational injuries and illnesses.
Employer recordkeeping requirement
If you run a private-sector business, you must maintain records of job-related injuries and illnesses under the OSH Act and 29 CFR part 1904. The Department of Labor estimates this collection affects 1,239,687 respondents with 5,571,568 responses and a total annual time burden of 2,161,177 hours, and lists OMB Control Number 1218-0176 and $0 in annual other costs. Written comments on this information collection are being accepted through March 31, 2025.
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