Situation Report | October 5, 2020
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has published additional frequently asked questions (FAQs) regarding the need to report employees’ in-patient hospitalizations and fatalities resulting from work-related cases of the coronavirus.
OSHA’s new FAQs provide information to help employers apply the agency’s existing injury and illness recording and reporting requirements to the coronavirus. In particular, the FAQs provide guidance on how to calculate reporting deadlines for inpatient hospitalizations and fatalities, and clarify the meaning of the term “incident” as it relates to work-related coronavirus inpatient hospitalizations and fatalities.