OSHA Updates Guidance Regarding COVID-19 Recordkeeping Requirements
On May 19, 2020, the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) issued a memorandum updating previous guidance regarding employers’ obligation to record cases of COVID-19 in the workplace. On May 26, 2020, the previous guidance will be rescinded and OSHA’s updated guidance will go into effect, the key provisions of which are summarized below.
Under the updated guidance, all employers subject to OSHA recordkeeping requirements will now have to determine whether employees’ COVID-19 cases are work-related and, if so, record such cases on the employer’s OSHA Form 300 log. The previous guidance generally exempted employers (aside from…
