Some of you may remember a Blog we posted in June
regarding the new Federal OSHA incident reporting rule. Minnesota OSHA has yet
to determine if or when it will be adopting the new recordkeeping rule, however
we wanted to keep you informed of some changes taking place with the federal
rule.
Federal OSHA has delayed enforcement of the new
recordkeeping rule until Dec 1st as there has been some confusion
regarding post-incident drug testing of
employees that was incorporated into it. The Federal rule offers employees
protection against “retaliatory drug testing” from employers as a result of an
employee reporting an incident. The wording of the rule however left some
confused as to whether post-incident testing was allowed at all now. Federal
OSHA’s latest guidance clarifies that it still allows employers to implement
post-incident drug testing when there is “an objectively reasonable basis for
testing”, or if the testing is unrelated to incident reporting.
Again we want to clarify that these changes will not
currently affect Minnesota Cities as MN OSHA has not released its version of
the new rule as of yet, but wanted to keep you updated as we had previously
informed you of the federal rule change.
For more information, as well as some tips on how to
properly implement a post-incident drug testing program you can visit this blog: http://new.newsedge.com/servlet/newsedge/newsedge?cmmd=readStory&key=wKsIPsAlw_XS5on0axjvh6KrNqy603RgySgIHANAygQE0eH4nvUCAQPt_NVu52xldcPwm0bzoCNd5n4NA3z-nR4txg2OJ2VvevNqZ1xi0xcQpXvHWoBORqWQ5m68Vgpw
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