Occupational injuries and illnesses: reporting.

Existing law requires an employer to file a report of every occupational injury or occupational illness, as defined, of each employee that results in lost time beyond the date of the injury or illness, and that requires medical treatment beyond first aid, with the Department of Industrial Relations, on a form prescribed by the department. Existing law requires an employer to immediately report a serious occupational injury, illness, or death to the Division of Occupational Safety and Health by telephone or email, as specified. This bill, instead, would require the report of serious occupational injury, illness, or death to the division to be made immediately by telephone or through an online mechanism established by the division for that purpose. The bill, until the division has made the online mechanism available, would require that the employer be permitted to make the report by telephone or email.