Safety Training Presentation

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Safety Training Presentation

• Recordkeeping
• 29 CFR 1904Effective January 1, 2002

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Affected Employers

• All employers must comply
• Employers with 10 or fewer employees are exempt
• Specific low-hazard industries are exempt
• Exempt employers may be required to keep records
• All must report fatality or hospitalization of
  three employees

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Recordkeeping Forms

• OSHA 300 Log of Work-Related Injuries and
  Illnesses
• OSHA 300-A Summary of Work-Related Injuries and
  Illnesses
• OSHA 301 Injury and Illness Incident Report
• Other equivalent forms

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Multiple Facilities

• Separate OSHA 300 Log required for each
  establishment
• OSHA 300 Logs maintained at central location
• Employee injured when visiting different
  facility
• Employee injured when working away from
  establishment

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Reporting to the Government

• Death or multiple hospitalization within 8
  hours
• Recordkeeping documents within 4 hours
• OSHA injury and illness survey
• BLS survey

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Employees Recorded

• Employees on your payroll
• Workers supervised on day-to-day basis
• Contractors employees not recorded
• Self-employed persons not recorded

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Employee Rights

• Informed how to report injuries or illnesses
• Limited access to injury and illness records
• Copies of OSHA 300 Log by next business day
• Employee privacy

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Recording Criteria

• Determine the following within seven calendar
  days
• Is the incident work related?
• Is the incident a new case?
• Does the incident meet general or specific
  recording criteria?

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Determine Work-Related Event or Exposure

• Causes, contributes to, or aggravates
  pre-existing injury or illness
• Exceptions when not considered work related

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Work Environment

• Location as condition of employment
• Physical location, equipment, or materials used
  
• Traveling
• Working at home

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Determination of New Case

• No previous same-type injury affecting same
  body part
• Symptoms of previous injury reappearing after
  work-related event
• Determination by physician if new case or
  recurrence of old case

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General Recording Criteria

• Death
• Days away from work
• Restricted work or transfer to another job
• Medical treatment beyond first aid
• Loss of consciousness
• A significant injury or illness diagnosed by a
  physician

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Work-Related Death

• Report any work-related fatality to OSHA within
  8 hours
• Record an injury or illness that results in
  death
• Mark the death box on the OSHA 300 Log

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Days Away from Work

• Mark the days away from work box on the 300
  Log
• Enter the number of calendar days away from work
• Start counting on the day after the
  injury/illness occurred
• Count physician-recommended days
• Limit to 180 days

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Restricted Work or Job Transfer

• Mark the job transfer or restriction box on
  the 300 Log
• Employee is kept from performing routine part of
  job
• Employee is kept from working normal full
  workday
• Worker is transferred to a different job
• Count the days of restricted work

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Medical Treatment

• Mark the other recordable cases box on the 300
  Log
• Medical treatment is specifically defined
• Person providing treatment does not matter
• Record according to doctor recommendations

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First-Aid Cases

• Nonprescription medication
• Tetanus shot
• Cleaning skin surface wounds
• Bandages, gauze pads, butterfly bandages
• Hot or cold therapy
• Use of nonrigid support
• Temporary immobilization during transporting

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First-Aid Cases (cont.)

• Relieving pressure from fingernail or draining a
  blister
• Use of an eye patch
• Removing object from eye by using irrigation
• Removing splinters with tweezers, irrigation
• Use of finger guards
• Massages
• Drinking fluids for heat stress

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Loss of Consciousness

• Loss of consciousness must be recorded
• Length of unconsciousness does not matter
• Mark the other recordable cases box on the
  OSHA 300 Log

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Significant Diagnosed Injury/Illness

• Work-related cancer
• Work-related chronic irreversible disease
• Fractured or cracked bone
• Punctured eardrum

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Specific Recording Criteria

• Needlestick and sharps injuries privacy case
• Medical removal
• Work-related tuberculosis
• Occupational hearing loss
• Musculoskeletal disorder

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Classifying Injuries and Illnesses

• Injury
• Skin disorders
• Respiratory conditions
• Poisoning
• Musculoskeletal disorders
• Noise-induced hearing loss
• All other illnesses

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Annual Summary

• Review OSHA 300 Log to ensure accuracy
• Complete annual summary of the OSHA 300 Log
• Certify summary
• Post annual summary

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Retention and Updating of Records

• Retain records for five years
• Update OSHA 300 Logs
• Record newly discovered injuries or illnesses
• Record changes in the classification of
  previously recorded incidents

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Summary

• Complete forms within seven calendar days
• Determine if the incident is work related and a
  new case
• Evaluate for general or specific recording
  criteria
• Post the summary
• Update past OSHA 300 Logs

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Quiz

• 1. When must a workers death or multiple
  hospitalizations be reported to OSHA?
• 2. An injured employee from a temporary service
  working under your day-to-day supervision does
  not have to be recorded on your OSHA 300 Log.
  True or False
• 3. Name one illness or injury that is covered
  by specific recording criteria.
• 4. How would you determine if an injury or
  illness is a new case?

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Quiz (cont.)

• 5. How would you determine if a traveling
  employees injury was work related?
• 6. If a physician recommends restricted work,
  the incident is automatically recorded as a
  restricted work case. True or False
• 7. When do you start counting the number of days
  away from work?
• 8. Name two specific first-aid procedures that
  are not considered medical treatment.

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Quiz (cont.)

• 9. When must the OSHA 300 Log summary be
  posted?
• 10. Name one reason for updating an old OSHA 300
  Log.

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Quiz Answers

• 1. Within eight hours
• 2. False, any injured worker (e.g., temporary,
  contractor) under your day-to-day supervision
  must be recorded on your OSHA 300 Log.
• 3. Needlestick, medical removal, tuberculosis,
  hearing loss, or musculoskeletal disorder
• 4. It is a new case if the employee has no
  previous injury of the same type affecting the
  same body part.
• 5. The traveling employee would have to be
  engaged in work activities at the time of the
  injury.

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Quiz Answers (cont.)

• 6. False, the physician-recommended restriction
  must prevent the worker from performing all
  normal job functions for it to be recorded as a
  restricted work case.
• 7. Start counting days away from work on the
  first day after the incident.
• 8. Nonprescription medication, tetanus shot,
  bandages, hot/cold therapy, massages, relieving
  pressure from fingernail, or removing object
  from eye with irrigation.

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Quiz Answers (cont.)

• 9. February 1 to April 30 of the year following
  the recorded year
• 10. Newly discovered injury or illness, or the
  reclassification of a previously recorded injury
  or illness