Ihab Saad – Recording and Reporting
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The speaker discusses recording and reporting requirements under OSHA code, including who is required to record and what forms are required. They explain that each employer must keep records of all occupational injuries and illnesses, including log of all occupational injuries, summary, and recordings of accidents. The speaker also explains the forms and requirements for reporting and how to comply with these requirements.
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Music. Hello again to another safety class. And today we're
going to talk about recording and reporting requirements under OSHA
code. So this is under the 29 CFR 1904,
so first of all, we're going to talk about what is the purpose of
recording and reporting, who is required to record, and what are
is going to be reported, and what are the conditions for posting
these reports? For how long are they going to be posted? Where are
they going to be posted, and so on and so forth. So first of all, the
purpose is to determine problem areas in job and develop ways to
eliminate or improve those areas. So the primary goal again is to
provide a safe work environment for all employees on our work
sites.
Who must keep what all non exempt employers must maintain at each
establishment, a log of all occupational injuries and
illnesses that occur at that location. So the issue now is, who
is required to keep these logs, what is meant by a non exempt
employer, and who would be an exempt employer in this case.
So some basics about the who the employers who are non exempt are
the employers with more than 10 employees. So if you have 11
employees, you have to find these reports. If you have less than 10,
you are non you are basically exempt from that reporting issue.
What forms need to be posted or sent? They must be OSHA approved
forms. And we're going to look at three different forms that OSHA
has approved for that particular purpose.
When are they going to be posted and when that reporting needs to
take place? Well, every year, OSHA randomly selects a group of
employers from a large list and sends them a form to fill about an
annual survey documenting the number of incidents and accidents
and illnesses and so on, and that's for the purpose of
statistical purposes. So these are going to be sent to the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, that's the statistical wing of the Labor
Department in this case, and they're going to keep records on
what was the most cited violation, for example, for how many days
were people away from sites due to injuries? How many fatalities did
we have in this year and things of that sort.
So what are the OSHA forms that we're talking about that needs to
be sent to OSHA, filled and sent to OSHA? We have basically three
different forms. The first one is the 300 log, which is for
recordable injuries. We're going to have a look at all of these
forms in a second. So the first one is the 300 log for recordable
injuries. We're going to learn what is recordable and what is non
recordable. There are some injuries that are really minor. In
this case, we don't need to record them or report them. The second
one is a 300 a summary, which must be posted from February to April
for the period of three months, basically, from February 1 to
April 30, you have to post these. And we're gonna talk about where
do they need to be posted. And the third one is the 301 form, which
is for incident reporting.
So the posting requirements, the 300 a summary, as we just
mentioned, needs to be posted on site from February 1 to April 30,
three consecutive months the posting location. If the project
duration exceeds 12 months, it has to be posted on site. If, however,
the project duration is less than 12 months, then you can post it at
the corporate office of that company. It has to be
authenticated. It has to be approved by the company as well.
So it has to be signed by a company executive, whether it's
the project manager or the corporate safety officer or the
CEO of the company, someone has to sign that report.
Here's an example of that OSHA form 300 which is the log of work
related injuries and illnesses. And it shows that it has to be
filled every year for which year the establishment name city and
state, where the project is or where the company is incorporated.
And here we're going to have the case number, employees, name, who
was injured or who got ill, the job title, what kind of job did
they do? Was a plumber, electrician, welder, Secretary,
security guard, etc. The date of injury or onset of illness, if
it's going to take a while to recover from when did that illness
started? Start? Where the event occurred. Did it occur on site,
and where exactly on site? So the example here is loading dock. Or
did it occur at the office of the company? Describe injury or
illness, parts of body affected and object size.
Other examples include removal of foreign bodies using irrigation or
a cotton swab, removal of splinters by irrigation tweezers
or cotton swab, use of finger guards. Massage therapy, we wish
to have that everywhere, and drinking fluid for heat stress,
again, that's definitely a first aid and is non recordable.
So basically, what we have learned in this very brief lecture is what
kind of forms need to be filled. How they are going to be filled?
We talked about three different forms, the 300 300 A and the 301
we talked about their posting. They have to be posted on site,
especially if the project duration exceeds 12 months. If it's less
than 12 months, it can be at the corporate office. Corporate
office. It has to be signed. You have to have the OSHA poster also
posted on site, and you have to post the 300 a form from February
1 to April 30. You might be invited to participate in a
randomly selected survey by OSHA, that's going to be for the Bureau
of Labor Statistics. And again, you have to inform your employees
on how to report incidents, and especially if it's a major
incidents. Well, incident, whether it was a fatality or an injury of
three or more employees, it has to be reported within eight hours.
Hopefully, everyone is going to comply with these requirements to
avoid any additional citations or penalties by OSHA. So I'll see you
in another lecture. You.