New OSHA Initiative Seeks to Ease Reporting—of Injury and Violations

New OSHA Initiative Seeks to Ease Reporting—of Injury and Violations

The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) is launching a new program that aims to simplify reporting of work-related illness and injury, as well as offer more protection for whistleblowers. Most relevant to urgent care operators who provide occupational health services, OSHA will require all work-related injuries and illness to be reported through a new database as of January 1, 2017. The same level of information will still have to be filed annually, but the …

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