OSHA Seeks Feedback on Blood Safety Forms
Published Date: 3/7/2025
Notice
Summary
The Department of Labor is asking for public feedback on its paperwork rules that help keep workers safe from bloodborne diseases at work. Employers and workers use this info to follow safety rules, and OSHA checks it to make sure everyone’s protected. Comments are open until April 7, 2025, and this approval lasts for three years, with no new costs expected.
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
Large paperwork burden on private employers
The Bloodborne Pathogens Standard information collection applies to the private sector (businesses or other for-profits) and is estimated to involve 793,728 respondents, 43,856,212 total responses, 7,870,142 annual hours of burden, and $116,568,859 in annual other costs. The collection is associated with OMB Control Number 1218-0180.
Information collection supports worker protection
The standard's information collection requirements are described as essential components that protect workers from occupational exposure to bloodborne pathogens; employers and workers use the information to implement required protections, and OSHA compliance officers will use some of it for enforcement.
Paperwork Reduction Act penalty protection
Under the Paperwork Reduction Act, a Federal agency generally cannot require a collection without OMB approval and a valid OMB Control Number; generally no person is subject to penalty for failing to comply with a collection that does not display a valid OMB Control Number.
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