Highlights of OSHA

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Highlights of OSHAs Recordkeeping Rule

• Courtney W. Bohannon
• Jackson Area Office

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Recordkeeping Highlights

• Updates the three recordkeeping forms
• OSHA form 300
• OSHA form 301
• OSHA form 300A

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Recordkeeping Highlights

• Requires records to include any work-related
  injury or illness resulting in one of the
  following
• Death
• Days away from work
• Restricted work
• Medical treatment

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Recordkeeping Highlights

• Recordability (contd)
• Loss of consciousness
• Diagnosis of a significant injury/illness

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1904.7(b)(5) First Aid

• Using nonprescription medication at
  nonprescription strength
• Tetanus immunizations
• Cleaning, flushing, or soaking surface wounds
• Wound coverings, butterfly bandages, Steri-Strips
• Hot or cold therapy
• Non-rigid means of support
• Temporary immobilization device used to transport
  accident victims

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First Aid

• Drilling of fingernail or toenail, draining fluid
  from blister
• Eye patches
• Removing foreign bodies from eye using irrigation
  or cotton swab
• Removing splinters or foreign material from areas
  other than the eye by irrigation, tweezers,
  cotton swabs or other simple means
• Finger guards
• Massages
• Drinking fluids for relief of heat stress

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To records or not record?

• Second or subsequent hot and cold soaks and use
  of whirlpool treatment.
• Not Recordable

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To records or not record?

• One-time administration of oxygen for several
  minutes.
• Recordable

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To records or not record?

• Employee has work-related elbow pain and is given
  non-prescription pain medication at prescription
  strength.
• Recordable

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Recordkeeping Highlights

• Adds additional exemptions to the definition of
  work-relationship.

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Job Restriction

• Restricted work activity occurs when
• An employee is kept from performing one or more
  routine functions (work activities the employee
  regularly performs at least once per week) of his
  or her job or
• An employee is kept from working a full workday
  or
• A PLHCP recommends either of the above

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1904.7(b)(4) Job Transfer

• An injured or ill employee is assigned to a job
  other than his or her regular job for part of the
  day
• A case is recordable if the injured or ill
  employee performs his or her routine job duties
  for part of a day and is assigned to another job
  for the rest of the day

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Recordkeeping Highlights

• Eliminates the term "lost workdays" and focuses
  on days away or days restricted or transferred.
• Cap day count at 180 days.

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Recordkeeping Highlights

• Requires recording of all needlestick and sharps
  injuries involving contamination by another
  person's blood or other bodily fluids.

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Recordkeeping Highlights

• Provisions describing the recording criteria for
  cases involving the work-related transmission of
  tuberculosis or medical removal under OSHA
  standards.

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Recordkeeping Highlights

• Establish a procedure for employees to report
  injuries and illnesses and tell their employees
  how to report.

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Recordkeeping Highlights

• Protects employee privacy

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Recordkeeping Highlights

• 3 month posting.
• Certify.

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Recordkeeping Highlights

• Changes the reporting of fatalities and
  catastrophes to exclude some motor carrier and
  motor vehicle accidents.

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Record Access

• Must provide limited access to injury and illness
  records
• Must provide copies of the records within 4
  business hours
• Use the business hours of the establishment where
  the records are located

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Entering Information on the OSHA 300 Log

• 1/23/02, Allen Ghouleah, Welder in Welding
  Department, developed flash burn in both eyes.
  Received prescription medication. No days away
  from work.
• Recordable 1904.7(b)(5), Other Recordable
  Cases, All other illnesses.

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Entering Information on the OSHA 300 Log

• 2/1/02, Shawn Hogal, Maintenance Supervisor in
  Maintenance Department working in the boiler
  room. Found unconscious in boiler. Sent to
  hospital where he died 2/3/02. Diagnosis was
  death due to carbon monoxide.
• Recordable, Death, Poisoning.

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Entering Information on the OSHA 300 Log

• 3/6/02, Bob Foglia, Shipping Department Forklift
  Operator. Broke his right large toe, when the
  forklift ran over his foot. Unable to walk but
  was able to drive the forklift. Had another
  employee do work for him which required walking
  for 4 days. No days away from work.
• Recordable, Job Restriction, Injury (4 days job
  restriction)

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Entering Information on the OSHA 300 Log

• 3/9/02, Marilyn Rose, Canning Machine Operator in
  Canning Department. Foreign object in right eye
  (not embedded). Doctor said she could return to
  work but Marilyn did not return for 2 days
  because of eye pain.
• Not Recordable

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Entering Information on the OSHA 300 Log

• 3/11/02 Carrie Nation, Maintenance Department.
  Employee is designated first aid responder
  reported that she received a needle stick to the
  left hand while cleaning up the Canning Area
  contaminated with Mark Boulwares blood after the
  EMS team removed Mark. There was a
  recommendation for medical treatment.
• Recordable, Other recordable cases,
  Injury-Privacy Case.

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Entering Information on the OSHA 300 Log

• 6/21/02 Cathy Withmore, Computer Operator in the
  Training Department, choked on a sandwich in the
  lunchroom. Hospitalized for 2 days.
• Not Recordable 1904.5(b)(2)(iv).

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Entering Information on the OSHA 300 Log

• 7/15/02 Valerie Gilmore, retired Boiler Room
  Supervisor (4 years ago), after working 40 years.
  She was diagnosed with work related asbestosis.
• Recordable, Other Recordable Cases, Respiratory
  Condition.

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Entering Information on the OSHA 300 Log

• 7/16/02 John Doe, Shop Foreman, had a diabetic
  incident that occurred while he was working.
• Not Recordable 1904.5(b)(2)(ii).

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Courtney W. Bohannon
USDOL OSHA Jackson Area Office 3780 I-55 North
Suite 210 Jackson, MS 39211-6323 601-965-4606
ext. 35 bohannon.courtney_at_dol.gov