Question: How would I go about finding an experience modification number for a company?

Answer: The Experience Modification Rate (EMR) is a rate assigned by your worker's compensation insurance carrier. Please contact your carrier for this information.

Question: I understand that there is a training tutorial on Recordkeeping. How do I obtain this tutorial?

Answer: The tutorial is located at http://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/tutorial.html

Question: I would like to be able to obtain injury and illness statistics for individual companies: Is there a way I can look up these stats?

Answer: You can search for establishment specific injury and illness rates at http://www.osha.gov/pls/odi/establishment_search.html

Question: Where would I go to get benchmarking statistics on Occupational Health and Safety in food producing facilities? Namely I am interested in industry averages for the number of work related injuries or illnesses.

Answer: You can find occupational injury and illness statistical information on the Bureau of Labor Statistics webpage at http://www.bls.gov/iif/home.htm

Question: I am updating our Computer Based Training and have injury and illness statistics dated 1996. Where can I find more recent statistics?

Answer: You can find occupational injury and illness statistical information on the Bureau of Labor Statistics webpage at http://www.bls.gov/iif/home.htm

Question: I prepare a monthly safety report for my senior managers and would like to add national industry averages to it so that they can compare our performance to others in the industry. Where can I find current information on this?

Answer: You can find occupational injury and illness statistical information on the Bureau of Labor Statistics webpage at http://www.bls.gov/iif/home.htm

Question: I have to fill out a safety performance history for our company. At the bottom of the form it asks for "EMR" history. I do not know what this is?

Answer: The Experience Modification Rate (EMR) is a rate assigned by your worker's compensation insurance carrier. Please contact your carrier for this information.

Question: I am going to be taking over the Workman's Comp. claims in our office. Are there training manuals and forms that you can send me?

Answer: OSHA does not administer workers compensation programs. Each state runs its own program. OSHA does have injury and illness recordkeeping requirements that can be found at this link on the website http://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/index.html

Question: If a business logs an injury on the 300 log but later finds out that the injury was not work related and was denied as Worker's Compensation, can the entry be removed from the 300 Log?

Answer: Workers' Compensation determinations do not impact OSHA recordability. The employer must evaluate the employee's work duties and the work environment to decide whether an event or exposure in the work environment either caused or contributed to the condition or significantly aggravated a pre-existing condition. If so, the case is work-related.

Question: When do I need to be in compliance with this rule?

Answer:

March 2, 2020, is the deadline for electronically reporting your OSHA Form 300A data for calendar year 2019. Collection will begin January 2, 2020.

OSHA published a Final Rule to amend its recordkeeping regulation to remove the requirement to electronically submit to OSHA information from the OSHA Form 300 (Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses) and OSHA Form 301 (Injury and Illness Incident Report) for establishments with 250 or more employees that are required to routinely keep injury and illness records. Covered establishments are only required to electronically submit information from the OSHA Form 300A (Summary of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses). The requirement to keep and maintain OSHA Forms 300, 300A, and 301 for five years is not changed by this Final Rule.

Remember, not all establishments are covered by this requirement. To review which establishments need to provide their data, click here.

See answers to more frequently asked questions on the rule or visit the Injury Tracking Application, Electronic Submission of Injury and Illness Records to OSHA.