(a) The division shall monitor rulemaking and implementation of the United States Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses rule as published in the federal Register (81 FR 29624) with respect to the electronic submission of workplace injury and illness data.
(b) If the division determines that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has eliminated or substantially diminished the requirement that employers electronically submit OSHA injury and illness data pursuant to 81 FR 29624, the division shall, within 120 days of the determination, convene an advisory committee to evaluate how to implement the changes necessary to protect the goals of the Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses rule, as issued May 12, 2016. The committee shall be composed of parties in both management and labor and include parties that are required to keep injury and illness records under Article 2 (commencing with Section 14300) of Subchapter 1 of Chapter 7 of Division 1 of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations.
(c) This section does not require the disclosure of information prohibited under Section 6412.
(Added by Stats. 2018, Ch. 538, Sec. 6. (AB 2334) Effective January 1, 2019.)