OSHA
If you have 10 or more employees and unless your organization is on the exempt/partially exempt list (see the list here), your OSHA 300A form should be posted in a common area (from February 1) through April 30. You can access the OSHA forms here.
If your organization has 250 or more employees or has 20-249 employees in certain high risk industries (see the list here), you must submit your OSHA 300A electronically by July 1.
If your organization is seeing a rise in workplace accidents and a rise in your EMR (workers comp modification rate), this is may be a symptom of other organizational issues rather than a disease in and of itself. Those organizational issues might include poor employee selection, poor on-boarding and training, low employee engagement, poor supervision or executive management that is not committed to safety. Some of these can't be fixed with a new safety manual, so take a comprehensive look at your organization if your safety metrics are headed in the wrong direction.
I-9
The USCIS has revised the I-9 form and employers were required to begin using it by January 22. The list of approved documents and the basic process haven't changed, they've just updated the form to make it a little easier to use.
It is not a fully electronic form, but it is a "smart" pdf form that includes error checking and prompts. You still need to print the form and obtain real signatures and monitor the forms for reverification in the cases of work authorizations that expire (like certain work visas).
Don't store I-9s in your employees' individual personnel files - store them in separate folder or binder and make sure they are stored securely.
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