Feb 1 Deadline Ahead: Employers Must Post Injury & Illness Summaries by Feb 1, Safety.BLR.com Reminds Safety Managers
Clear a space on the company bulletin board. Safety.BLR.com reminds safety managers that OSHA regulations require that OSHA’s 300A form, a summary of all 2004 workplace illnesses and injuries, must be posted prominently in the workplace between February 1 and April 30 2005.
Old Saybrook, CT (PRWEB) January 31, 2005 -- Clear a space on the company
bulletin board, folks. OSHA regulations require that OSHA’s 300A form, a summary
of all 2004 workplace illnesses and injuries, must be posted prominently in the
workplace between February 1 and April 30 2005. Failure to comply with OSHA
recordkeeping requirements could result in fines of $10,000 (some organizations
are exempt because of size or type of business).
Steve Quilliam, editor
at Safety.BLR.com, a website that makes safety training and compliance easier,
explained some other changes in the new law, which went into effect for injuries
occurring in 2003: “One of the most confusing concepts of recordkeeping has been
restricted work. The new rule,” he explained, “clarifies the definition of
restricted work or light duty and makes it easier to record those cases.”
Restricted work activity occurs as the result of a work-related injury or
illness that keeps an employee from doing the routine functions of the job or
from working the full workday.
Quilliam points out another key
difference: “OSHA is trying to better define work-related injuries, to ensure
that cases clearly unrelated to work are excluded.” OSHA says that an injury or
illness is considered work-related if an event or exposure in the work
environment caused or contributed to the condition, or significantly aggravated
a preexisting condition.
The 300A summary must list the total numbers of
job-related deaths, injuries, and illnesses that occurred in 2004 and were
logged on the OSHA 300 form. Employment information about annual average number
of employees and total hours worked is also required.
Safety Meetings and
Safety Talks
Business & Legal Reports, Inc.’s website, Safety.BLR.com,
features hundreds of safety meetings – in PowerPoint®, outline, or talk formats
— plus safety tools like checklists and clipart. Plain-English interpretations
of all federal and state OSHA regulations are also
provided.
Safety.BLR.com offers a free download of its members-only
summary of OSHA Recordkeeping Requirements. To get the download go to http://www.blr.com/81001600/WBS560, or call
800-727-5257.
About BLR
Old Saybrook, Conn.-based BLR provides
plain-English compliance and training tools for safety, environmental, HR, and
compensation managers. For information and a free catalog, call 800-727-5257 or
visit www.BLR.com.
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