[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 229 (Wednesday, November 27, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 93666-93667]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-27718]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
[Docket No. OSHA-2010-0055]
Recordkeeping and Reporting Occupational Injuries and Illnesses;
Revision of the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) Approval of
Information Collection (Paperwork) Requirements
AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Labor.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
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SUMMARY: OSHA solicits public comments concerning the proposed revision
to combine two separate OMB approved Recordkeeping and Reporting
Occupational Injuries and Illnesses Information Collections.
DATES: Comments must be submitted (postmarked, sent, or received) by
January 27, 2025.
ADDRESSES:
Electronically: You may submit comments and attachments
electronically at https://www.regulations.gov, which is the Federal
eRulemaking Portal. Follow the instructions online for submitting
comments.
Docket: To read or download comments or other material in the
docket, go to https://www.regulations.gov. Documents in the docket are
listed in the https://www.regulations.gov index; however, some
information (e.g., copyrighted material) is not publicly available to
read or download through the websites. All submissions, including
copyrighted material, are available for inspection through the OSHA
Docket Office. Contact the OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693-2350 (TTY
(877) 889-5627) for assistance in locating docket submissions.
Instructions: All submissions must include the agency name and OSHA
docket number (OSHA-2010-0055) for the Information Collection Request
(ICR). OSHA will place all comments, including any personal
information, in the public docket, which may be made available online.
Therefore, OSHA cautions interested parties about submitting personal
information such as social security numbers and birthdates.
For further information on submitting comments, see the ``Public
Participation'' heading in the section of this notice titled
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Seleda Perryman, Directorate of
Standards and Guidance, OSHA, U.S. Department of Labor; telephone (202)
693-2222.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Department of Labor, as part of the continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent (i.e., employer) burden, conducts a
preclearance consultation program to provide the public with an
opportunity to comment on proposed and continuing information
collection requirements in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). This program ensures that
information is in the desired format, reporting burden (time and costs)
is minimal, the collection instruments are clearly understood, and
OSHA's estimate of the information collection burden is accurate. The
Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSH Act) (29 U.S.C. 651 et
seq.) authorizes information collection by employers as necessary or
appropriate for enforcement of the OSH Act or for developing
information regarding the causes and prevention of occupational
injuries, illnesses, and accidents (29 U.S.C. 657). The OSH Act also
requires that OSHA obtain such information with minimum burden upon
employers, especially those operating small businesses, and to reduce
to the maximum extent feasible unnecessary duplication of effort in
obtaining information (29 U.S.C. 657).
The Agency requests a revision to incorporate the Improve Tracking
of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses paperwork package, OMB Control
Number 1218-0279, into the Recordkeeping and Reporting Occupational
Injuries and Illnesses (29 CFR part 1904) paperwork package, OMB
Control Number 1218-0176. While both paperwork packages contain
information collections contained in the Recording and Reporting
Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (29 CFR part 1904), a separate
paperwork package for the Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and
Illnesses rulemaking was necessary to ensure continued OMB approval of
the existing information collections in the Recordkeeping and Reporting
Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (29 CFR part 1904) paperwork
package. The Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act) and 29 CFR
part 1904 prescribe that certain employers maintain records of job-
related injuries and illnesses. Other employers with 100 or more
employees in certain designated industries are required to submit
electronically to OSHA information captured on their completed OSHA
300, 301, and 300A Forms. The injury and illness records are intended
to have multiple purposes. One purpose is to provide data needed by
OSHA to carry out enforcement and intervention activities to provide
workers a safe and healthful work environment. Access to this data
allows the Agency to more efficiently focus its enforcement and
outreach resources toward establishments that are experiencing specific
types of occupational injury and illness Expanded public access to
establishment-specific, case-specific, injury and illness data will
allow employers, employees, potential employees, employee
representatives, customers, potential customers, researchers, and the
general public to make informed decisions about the workplace safety
and health at a given establishment, and this accessibility will
ultimately result in the reduction of occupational injuries and
illnesses.
II. Special Issues for Comment
OSHA has a particular interest in comments on the following issues:
Whether the proposed information collection requirements
are necessary for the proper performance of the agency's functions to
protect workers, including whether the information is useful;
The accuracy of OSHA's estimate of the burden (time and
costs) of the information collection requirements, including the
validity of the methodology and assumptions used;
The quality, utility, and clarity of the information
collected; and
Ways to minimize the burden on employers who must comply;
for example, by using automated or other technological information, and
transmission techniques.
III. Proposed Actions
OSHA is requesting a revision the currently approved collection of
information requirements contained in the paperwork package for
Recordkeeping and Reporting Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (29 CFR
part 1904) by OMB. This revision is incorporating the collections of
information contained in the paperwork package for Improve Tracking of
Injuries and Illnesses, OMB Control Number 1218-0279, with the
paperwork package for Recordkeeping and Reporting Occupational Injuries
and Illnesses paperwork package, OMB Control Number 1218-0176. As a
result, the agency is requesting a program change increase of 112,551
hours and an adjustment decrease of 5,934 hours the burden going from
2,167,111 to 2,161,177 hours.
OSHA will summarize the comments submitted in response to this
notice and will include this summary in the request to OMB to extend
the approval of the information collection requirements.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Title: Recordkeeping and Reporting Occupational Injuries and
Illnesses (29 CFR part 1904).
OMB Control Number: 1218-0176.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profits.
Number of Respondents: 1,239,687.
Number of Responses: 5,571,568.
Frequency of Responses: On occasion, Annual.
Average Time per Response: Varies.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 2,161,177.
Estimated Cost (Operation and Maintenance): $0.
IV. Public Participation--Submission of Comments on This Notice and
Internet Access to Comments and Submissions
You may submit comments in response to this document as follows:
(1) electronically at https://www.regulations.gov, which is the Federal
eRulemaking Portal; or (2) by facsimile (fax), if your comments,
including attachments, are not longer than 10 pages you may fax them to
the OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693-1648. All comments, attachments,
and other material must identify the agency name and the OSHA docket
number for the ICR (Docket No. OSHA-2010-0055). You may supplement
electronic submission by uploading document files electronically.
Comments and submissions are posted without change at https://www.regulations.gov. Therefore, OSHA cautions commenters about
submitting personal information such as social security numbers and
dates of birth. Although all submissions are listed in the https://www.regulations.gov index, some information (e.g., copyrighted
material) is not publicly available to read or download from this
website. All submission, including copyrighted material, are available
for inspection and copying at the OSHA Docket Office. Information on
using the https://www.regulations.gov website to submit comments and
access the docket is available at the website's ``User Tips'' link.
Contact the OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693-2350, (TTY (877) 889-
5627) for information about materials not available from the website,
and for assistance in using the internet to locate docket submissions.
V. Authority and Signature
James S. Frederick, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Occupational Safety and Health, directed the preparation of this
notice. The authority for this notice is the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 (44 U.S.C. 3506 et seq.) and Secretary of Labor's Order No. 8-2020
(85 FR 58393).
Signed at Washington, DC, on November 20, 2024.
James S. Frederick,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health.
[FR Doc. 2024-27718 Filed 11-26-24; 8:45 am]
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