Recordkeeping & Reporting

Who on Your Team Needs the OSHA Recordkeeping & Reporting Course?

Recordkeeping is one of the few OSHA duties that lands on an office desk rather than a job site. The courses below cover the people at the other end of the same incident.

• Recordkeeping & Reporting. You are on it. For whoever owns the OSHA 300 log: the recordability decision, the three forms, the February to April posting, and the five year retention.
• OSHA 30 Hour Construction. The supervisor-level outreach course. Recordkeeping is one topic inside it rather than the subject, so buy this course as well where somebody actually maintains the log. View the OSHA 30 Hour Construction
• First Aid & CPR Essentials. The line between first aid and medical treatment decides whether a case goes on the log at all. This course covers giving the first aid; that one covers recording it. View the First Aid & CPR Essentials
• Bloodborne Pathogens. Needlestick and sharps injuries have their own recording rule under 1904. The bloodborne pathogens course covers the exposure control side of the same incident. View the Bloodborne Pathogens

One person usually owns the log. Everybody who might witness a recordable case needs to know to tell them.

What Has to Be Reported to OSHA, and How Fast

Recording and reporting are two different duties. Recording goes on your own log. Reporting means picking up the phone to OSHA, and 29 CFR 1904.39 sets two clocks.

• A fatality: eight hours. 29 CFR 1904.39(a)(1) requires the fatality to be reported within eight hours of the death, where the death results from a work-related incident that occurred within the previous 30 days.
• A hospitalization, amputation or loss of an eye: twenty-four hours. 29 CFR 1904.39(a)(2) requires reporting within 24 hours of the in-patient hospitalization of one or more employees, an amputation, or an employee's loss of an eye, where the incident occurred within the previous 24 hours.
• One employee is enough. The trigger is a single hospitalization. The old rule that only counted a catastrophe of three or more hospitalized employees was replaced, and an employer still working to it will miss reportable events.
• Recording is separate and slower. A recordable case goes on the Form 300 log and the Form 301 incident report within seven calendar days under 29 CFR 1904.29(b)(3). That deadline has nothing to do with the phone call.