Understand how OSHA's extensive recordkeeping and reporting rules affect your business. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA’s) recordkeeping requirements in place since 1971 (29 Code of Federal Regulations CFR Part 1904) are designed to help employers recognize workplace hazards and correct hazardous conditions by keeping track of work-related injuries and illnesses and their causes. These requirements were updated in 2002, 2015, 2016 and 2019. 2002 Changes The 2002 revision was written in plain language using a question and answer format. OSHA changed the injury and illness reporting forms, eliminating the 200 form and replacing it with the new 300 […]