WASHINGTON — A proposal by the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) to increase requirements for companies to report employee hospitalizations is an added burden on employers and will do “little if anything” to improve workplace safety, according to the Joint Poultry Industry Safety & Health Council.
Under current federal rules, an employer is required to file a report with OSHA if three or more employees are hospitalized because of work-related incidents.
The proposed rule expands the reporting requirement to require reporting of a single employee hospitalization within eight hours for work-related incidents.
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