Ihab Saad – Recording and Reporting

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.