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May 31st, 2023
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By David Collingwood, Director of Workers' Compensation Claims & Safety
The business leaders we work with obviously want to maintain safe facilities and want to stay in compliance with OSHA regulations. But they don’t want to spend time becoming experts on OSHA requirements and updates when their time is better spent focusing on growing their businesses.
That’s why easy-to-understand, up-to-date resources are so important to help businesses stay on top of their requirements year-round.
McClone has partnered with OSHALogs on a 2023 Compliance Guidebook to help you navigate the current recordkeeping and electronic submission requirements but just as important, it provides key information on what OSHA is considering for next year’s requirements.
OSHA is in the final stages of updating some key regulations and, as a result, some companies may need to approach their recordkeeping and reporting in 2023 very differently than prior years.
Some enterprises in certain industries (and by “certain” we mean about 65% of all industries) may need to provide a lot more information to OSHA than they did in the past. In addition to the Form 300A that most companies are required to submit now, some will also have to submit their Form 300 and Form 301 as well.
The time to prepare for this possibility is now. Maintaining all of your recordkeeping throughout 2023 and being mindful of OSHA’s final rulemaking will make submissions in Q1 2024 much easier.
The Compliance Guide is a great place to start, and some of the upcoming changes were also discussed on a webinar earlier this year featuring Dustin Boss from OSHALogs.
As OSHA finalizes their changes, we’ll be sure to detail them on this blog. In the meantime, If you’re looking for ways to simplify OSHA recordkeeping, we can help. A great place to start is with a demo of the OSHALogs platform.
David Collingwood, Director of Workers' Compensation Claims & Safety
In his role at McClone, David is responsible for overseeing two key service areas—workers’ compensation claims advocacy, and safety and loss control. With more than 32 years of leadership experience in carrier work comp claims management, David has worked closely with clients in a variety of industries—construction, manufacturing, healthcare, hospitality, etc.—to help them understand work comp claims processes and mitigate claims. Company safety practices and procedures are key to reducing claims, and David uses his knowledge of state statutes, case law and complex claims to help clients identify risks, increase safety awareness and maximize carrier resources. Prior to joining McClone in 2020, David most recently worked for SECURA Insurance Company. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Illinois State University and served on the board for the Wisconsin Claims Council as well as an insurance liaison on the Wisconsin Workers’ Compensation Advisory Council. David is also actively involved in the Menasha, Wis., community and he currently serves as Vice President of the congregation for Trinity Lutheran Church.
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