Recordkeeping deadlines
Download an .ics file for each deadline. Each event repeats yearly and includes a reminder two weeks before.
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Post Form 300A: February 1 through April 30
Post the certified annual summary (Form 300A only, not the Log) in a conspicuous place no later than February 1 of the year after the one it covers, and keep it posted through April 30.
29 CFR 1904.32(b)(6)
Add to calendar (.ics)Electronic submission (ITA): March 2
If your establishment must submit electronically, send the prior year's data through OSHA's Injury Tracking Application by March 2. The collection opens January 2 (for 2025 data: opens January 2, 2026, due March 2, 2026).
29 CFR 1904.41(c); ITA FAQs
Add to calendar (.ics)
Other timing rules
- Enter each recordable case on the 300 Log and 301 report within 7 calendar days of learning about it (1904.29(b)(3)).
- Report a work-related fatality within 8 hours; an in-patient hospitalization, amputation or loss of an eye within 24 hours (1904.39(a)).
- Keep the Log, privacy case list, annual summary and 301 reports for 5 years after the year they cover (1904.33(a)).
- Written plans (BBP, EAP, CA WVPP) get their own annual review reminder from the plan page once generated.