OSHA’s New Recordkeeping Requirements: Resources to Help You Ensure Your Property is in Compliance in 2015
On September 11, 2014 OSHA published its final rule on occupational injury and illness recordkeeping and reporting. The rule, which goes into effect on January 1 for workplaces under federal OSHA jurisdiction, expands the list of severe work-related injuries that must be reported and requires covered employers to report all work-related in-patient hospitalizations within 24 hours.
Under OSHA’s recordkeeping regulation, employers subject to OSHA are already required to prepare and maintain logs for serious occupational injuries and illnesses as well as fatalities, using the OSHA 300 log. With OSHA’s expanded view of recordkeeping, employers inspected by OSHA can anticipate that the inspector will review all their 300 logs for the past five years as part of any inspection. Yet many employers who think their OSHA recordkeeping logs and procedures are fully compliant find after an OSHA inspection that they were not.
Use the following resources to ensure that your property is in compliance in 2015 with new and existing requirements for reporting and recording workplace injuries.
OSHA Injury and Illness Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements Resource Page
With the recent changes to OSHA’s injury and illness recording and reporting regulation, the OSHA Recordkeeping Handbook is no longer current. Get the Detailed Guidance for OSHA’s Injury and Illness Recordkeeping Rule, which replaces the Handbook, and other OSHA resources here.
December 16, 2014 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Presented by Edwin G. Foulke, Jr., co-chair of the Workplace Safety and Catastrophe Management Practice Group at Fisher & Phillips and former Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA, this free webinar will examine the many recordkeeping pitfalls that employers face, especially those with multiple locations. The program will cover how to coordinate your injury and illness recordkeeping with other recordkeeping requirements and how employers can effectively use recordkeeping to improve their current safety and health management program. You’ll also learn what events are required to be reported directly to OSHA, what injuries and illnesses are recordable and why and how to analyze each injury or illness to ensure they are properly recorded. Click here to register
Free Workers’ Comp Safety & Savings Program Class: OSHA 300 Recordkeeping
Learn what incidents should be recorded on OSHA 300 Forms and what is considered first aid and therefore exempt from reporting. You’ll also learn posting requirement, how to calculate your incidence rate and important information on confidentiality of records issues and much more. WLA members may attend at no charge as one of the four free safety class registrations members receive each year. Click here to register