DRI Offers Training for OSHA Drug Testing Rules
This summer the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published final rules regarding the reporting of workplace injuries and illnesses. These rules include a substantial limitation on an employer’s ability to conduct post-accident drug and alcohol testing. OSHA agreed to delay enforcement until December 1, 2016.
Many Texas employers have expressed their concern over the effect of the federal rules on their abilities to investigate workplace accidents. Texas workers’ compensation carriers also worry that the rules may impede their ability to assert the intoxication defense on workers’ compensation claims.
The employment law bar has stepped forward to offer advice to employers who have concerns about how to conduct their business in light of the proposed rules. The Defense Research Institute (DRI), has scheduled a November 9, 2016 webinar, hosted by Laurie Goetz Kemp, a partner with the Indiana law firm of Kightlinger & Gray, which promises to provide an overview of the new OSHA regulations and requirements for electronic reporting, detailing who is required to report electronically, what information must be submitted, and when reporting must occur. Registration information for the DRI webinar can be found at the DRI website.
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