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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 229 (Wednesday, November 27, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 93666-93667]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-27718]

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

[Docket No. OSHA-2010-0055]

Recordkeeping and Reporting Occupational Injuries and Illnesses; 
Revision of the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) Approval of 
Information Collection (Paperwork) Requirements

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Labor.

ACTION: Request for public comments.

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SUMMARY: OSHA solicits public comments concerning the proposed revision 
to combine two separate OMB approved Recordkeeping and Reporting 
Occupational Injuries and Illnesses Information Collections.

DATES: Comments must be submitted (postmarked, sent, or received) by 
January 27, 2025.

ADDRESSES: 
    Electronically: You may submit comments and attachments 
electronically at https://www.regulations.gov, which is the Federal 
eRulemaking Portal. Follow the instructions online for submitting 
comments.
    Docket: To read or download comments or other material in the 
docket, go to https://www.regulations.gov. Documents in the docket are 
listed in the https://www.regulations.gov index; however, some 
information (e.g., copyrighted material) is not publicly available to 
read or download through the websites. All submissions, including 
copyrighted material, are available for inspection through the OSHA 
Docket Office. Contact the OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693-2350 (TTY 
(877) 889-5627) for assistance in locating docket submissions.
    Instructions: All submissions must include the agency name and OSHA 
docket number (OSHA-2010-0055) for the Information Collection Request 
(ICR). OSHA will place all comments, including any personal 
information, in the public docket, which may be made available online. 
Therefore, OSHA cautions interested parties about submitting personal 
information such as social security numbers and birthdates.
    For further information on submitting comments, see the ``Public 
Participation'' heading in the section of this notice titled 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Seleda Perryman, Directorate of 
Standards and Guidance, OSHA, U.S. Department of Labor; telephone (202) 
693-2222.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    The Department of Labor, as part of the continuing effort to reduce 
paperwork and respondent (i.e., employer) burden, conducts a 
preclearance consultation program to provide the public with an 
opportunity to comment on proposed and continuing information 
collection requirements in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). This program ensures that 
information is in the desired format, reporting burden (time and costs) 
is minimal, the collection instruments are clearly understood, and 
OSHA's estimate of the information collection burden is accurate. The 
Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSH Act) (29 U.S.C. 651 et 
seq.) authorizes information collection by employers as necessary or 
appropriate for enforcement of the OSH Act or for developing 
information regarding the causes and prevention of occupational 
injuries, illnesses, and accidents (29 U.S.C. 657). The OSH Act also 
requires that OSHA obtain such information with minimum burden upon 
employers, especially those operating small businesses, and to reduce 
to the maximum extent feasible unnecessary duplication of effort in 
obtaining information (29 U.S.C. 657).
    The Agency requests a revision to incorporate the Improve Tracking 
of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses paperwork package, OMB Control 
Number 1218-0279, into the Recordkeeping and Reporting Occupational 
Injuries and Illnesses (29 CFR part 1904) paperwork package, OMB 
Control Number 1218-0176. While both paperwork packages contain 
information collections contained in the Recording and Reporting 
Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (29 CFR part 1904), a separate 
paperwork package for the Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and 
Illnesses rulemaking was necessary to ensure continued OMB approval of 
the existing information collections in the Recordkeeping and Reporting 
Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (29 CFR part 1904) paperwork 
package. The Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act) and 29 CFR 
part 1904 prescribe that certain employers maintain records of job-
related injuries and illnesses. Other employers with 100 or more 
employees in certain designated industries are required to submit 
electronically to OSHA information captured on their completed OSHA 
300, 301, and 300A Forms. The injury and illness records are intended 
to have multiple purposes. One purpose is to provide data needed by 
OSHA to carry out enforcement and intervention activities to provide 
workers a safe and healthful work environment. Access to this data 
allows the Agency to more efficiently focus its enforcement and 
outreach resources toward establishments that are experiencing specific 
types of occupational injury and illness Expanded public access to 
establishment-specific, case-specific, injury and illness data will 
allow employers, employees, potential employees, employee 
representatives, customers, potential customers, researchers, and the 
general public to make informed decisions about the workplace safety 
and health at a given establishment, and this accessibility will 
ultimately result in the reduction of occupational injuries and 
illnesses.

II. Special Issues for Comment

    OSHA has a particular interest in comments on the following issues:
     Whether the proposed information collection requirements 
are necessary for the proper performance of the agency's functions to 
protect workers, including whether the information is useful;
     The accuracy of OSHA's estimate of the burden (time and 
costs) of the information collection requirements, including the 
validity of the methodology and assumptions used;
     The quality, utility, and clarity of the information 
collected; and

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     Ways to minimize the burden on employers who must comply; 
for example, by using automated or other technological information, and 
transmission techniques.

III. Proposed Actions

    OSHA is requesting a revision the currently approved collection of 
information requirements contained in the paperwork package for 
Recordkeeping and Reporting Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (29 CFR 
part 1904) by OMB. This revision is incorporating the collections of 
information contained in the paperwork package for Improve Tracking of 
Injuries and Illnesses, OMB Control Number 1218-0279, with the 
paperwork package for Recordkeeping and Reporting Occupational Injuries 
and Illnesses paperwork package, OMB Control Number 1218-0176. As a 
result, the agency is requesting a program change increase of 112,551 
hours and an adjustment decrease of 5,934 hours the burden going from 
2,167,111 to 2,161,177 hours.
    OSHA will summarize the comments submitted in response to this 
notice and will include this summary in the request to OMB to extend 
the approval of the information collection requirements.
    Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Title: Recordkeeping and Reporting Occupational Injuries and 
Illnesses (29 CFR part 1904).
    OMB Control Number: 1218-0176.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profits.
    Number of Respondents: 1,239,687.
    Number of Responses: 5,571,568.
    Frequency of Responses: On occasion, Annual.
    Average Time per Response: Varies.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 2,161,177.
    Estimated Cost (Operation and Maintenance): $0.

IV. Public Participation--Submission of Comments on This Notice and 
Internet Access to Comments and Submissions

    You may submit comments in response to this document as follows: 
(1) electronically at https://www.regulations.gov, which is the Federal 
eRulemaking Portal; or (2) by facsimile (fax), if your comments, 
including attachments, are not longer than 10 pages you may fax them to 
the OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693-1648. All comments, attachments, 
and other material must identify the agency name and the OSHA docket 
number for the ICR (Docket No. OSHA-2010-0055). You may supplement 
electronic submission by uploading document files electronically.
    Comments and submissions are posted without change at https://www.regulations.gov. Therefore, OSHA cautions commenters about 
submitting personal information such as social security numbers and 
dates of birth. Although all submissions are listed in the https://www.regulations.gov index, some information (e.g., copyrighted 
material) is not publicly available to read or download from this 
website. All submission, including copyrighted material, are available 
for inspection and copying at the OSHA Docket Office. Information on 
using the https://www.regulations.gov website to submit comments and 
access the docket is available at the website's ``User Tips'' link.
    Contact the OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693-2350, (TTY (877) 889-
5627) for information about materials not available from the website, 
and for assistance in using the internet to locate docket submissions.

V. Authority and Signature

    James S. Frederick, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for 
Occupational Safety and Health, directed the preparation of this 
notice. The authority for this notice is the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995 (44 U.S.C. 3506 et seq.) and Secretary of Labor's Order No. 8-2020 
(85 FR 58393).

    Signed at Washington, DC, on November 20, 2024.
James S. Frederick,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health.
[FR Doc. 2024-27718 Filed 11-26-24; 8:45 am]
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