The Occupational Safety and Health Administration released its long-awaited electronic record-keeping rule on May 11. It goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2017, and is officially called “Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses.” The rule will require certain employers with 250 or more employees to electronically submit injury and illness data, some of which will be posted publicly on OSHA’s website.
“The agency is explicit in the ‘name and shame’ purpose of this rule,” said Charlie Morgan of Alston & Bird in a statement. “Transparency can be healthy and companies that have worked hard to keep their injury and illness rates low could see some advantages to this rule,” he says. But one potential drawback of public reporting is that “OSHA may create on a macro level an entire system that incentivizes underreporting of injuries,” Morgan said.
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