OSHA delays record-keeping rule, possibly enforcement
October 1, 1999 less than 1 minute read
OSHA delays record-keeping rule, possibly enforcement
Occupational Health Management has learned that the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in Washington, DC, will delay the release of the new record-keeping rule until an unspecified date later this year.
The rule originally was to be published this month with an effective date of January 2001. A spokesman for OSHA director Charles Jeffress tells OHM that the rule will not be released until later in the year. OSHA offered little explanation for the delay, except to say that the agency needed more time to finalize the rule before publishing it.
"It’s likely that the effective date also will be changed as well," says Frank Kane, spokesman for Jeffress. "We don’t know just yet, but it seems to follow that the effective date will have to be changed if we don’t get the rule out until later in the year."
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