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OSHA Proposes Online Injury-Illness Reports, Companies Balk

January 15, 2014

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Business and labor groups disagree sharply about a proposed rule that would require on-line, publically-accessible, workplace accident and illness reports. OSHA maintains they would help target both enforcement and compliance assistance. Business groups say the requirement would make reporting entities ripe targets for unions and plaintiff lawyers and incentivize businesses to underreport. (See Will OSHA’s Shame Game Improve Workplace Safety? by employment attorney Howard Mavity, as a guest post in Forbes.) The U.S. Chamber of Commerce argues OSHA lacks the authority to create this kind of data base.

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