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Alert! OSHA has released injury and illness data collected under the 2023 “Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses” regulation. This data dump doesn’t just include 300A summary data - it includes individual illness and injury data submitted by employers with 100 or more employees, in “high hazard” industries. Join Doug and Abbie as they discuss what data has been released, where to find it, and what’s still to come. For questions and comments, feel free to...

The Eclipse is coming! Are you having a watch party at work? What will you listen to? Every party has to have a music playlist, right? Who better to create and curate that playlist than the Health and Safety Law Report? We've got all the songs, listed in order, to rock out to as the event unfolds. Click here for the playlist on Spotify.Oh, and if the party gets too nutty, you might want a workers comp liability waiver. Yes, its true. In some states, i...

Alert! The sun will go dark mid-afternoon on April 8 for millions of Americans from Texas to Maine, and every place in between. That means your outdoor worksite will be plunged into total and complete darkness. And your employees working indoors will all simultaneously run outdoors to stare at the sun! What's an employer to do? In this exciting and timely and ever entertaining episode of the Health & Safety Law Report, your hosts Abbie and Doug will talk abou...

The OSHA standards require employers to contact OSHA when an employee is admitted to the hospital for treatment due to a work injury. Thats like calling the police on yourself. So employers should be sure to do so only when required. In this episode of the Health & Safety Law Report, Abbie and Doug discuss OSHA's definition of "treatment." Do diagnostics count? How about an overnight stay in the hospital for observation? And what happens if the em...

Happy Holidays from the Health & Safety Law Report! In this year's Christmas Special, Abbie and Doug discuss OSHA's new electronic reporting requirement. Better get ready. Electronic reports are due by March 2, 2024 for many employers. But wait! There's more. Because its Christmas, Abbie and Doug talk about whether OSHA would consider mayhem at office Christmas parties to be work hazards. Can OSHA cite the employer if the office crock pot has a f...

Dude.... Don't get high at work! Recently, Ohio joined many other states by legalizing recreational marijuana. In this episode of the Health & Safety Law Report, Abbie, Doug, and their guest Amy Mitchell discuss the employment implications of legalized marijuana. What does this mean for the workplace and workplace safety? OSHA has not directly addressed this issue, but still has tools to direct employer policies regarding employee intoxication. &n...