{"id":662,"date":"2018-11-05T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T23:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/?p=662"},"modified":"2022-06-05T13:30:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T23:30:19","slug":"osha-clarifies-stance-on-safety-incentive-and-drug-testing-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/news-and-information\/osha-clarifies-stance-on-safety-incentive-and-drug-testing-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"OSHA Clarifies Stance on Safety Incentive and Drug Testing Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In May 2016, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.osha.gov\/laws-regs\/regulations\/standardnumber\/1904\/1904.35\" target=\"_blank\">final rule<\/a>\u00a0that amended its record-keeping regulation and prohibited employers from retaliating against employees for reporting work-related injuries or illnesses, including actions taken under workplace safety incentive programs and post-incident drug testing policies. In a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.osha.gov\/laws-regs\/standardinterpretations\/2018-10-11\" target=\"_blank\">Standard Interpretation<\/a>\u00a0issued October 11, 2018, OSHA clarified that the regulation does not prohibit safety incentive programs or post-incident drug testing policies, as long as actions taken under them do not penalize an employee for or discourage an employee from reporting a work-related injury or illness rather than legitimately promote workplace safety and health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2016, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published a\u00a0final rule\u00a0that amended its record-keeping regulation and prohibited employers from retaliating against employees for reporting work-related injuries or illnesses, including actions taken under workplace safety incentive programs and post-incident drug testing policies. In a\u00a0Standard Interpretation\u00a0issued October 11, 2018, OSHA clarified that the regulation does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":663,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}