Federal OSHA has made two significant changes in their revision of the recordkeeping rule.

1.)    OSHA has updated the list of industries that are exempt from the requirement to keep OSHA injury and illness records. The previous list was based on the Standard Industrial Classification System (SIC) codes. The new list of industries that are exempt is based on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Employers with ten or fewer employees regardless of their industry classification remain exempt from this recordkeeping requirement.

2.)    OSHA is maintaining the requirement that all employers must report all work-related fatalities within 8-hours. However, the revision has added that employers must report all work-related hospitalizations, amputations and loss of an eye within 24 hours to OSHA.

States that are regulated by Federal OSHA must comply beginning January 1, 2015. Please visit https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping2014/index.html

If you are located in Kentucky, a State Plan State, you are under the Kentucky OSH Program. The KY OSH program may or may not adopt federal standards or policies. For more information on KY OSH please visit http://www.labor.ky.gov/dows/oshp/oshr/Pages/OSH-Regulations.aspx