Learning Objectives

After successful completion of this OSHA compliant course, the student will be able to:

• Understand OSHA’s recordkeeping rules.
• Help maintain a safer workplace.
• Participate in workplace recordkeeping to ensure safety for fellow coworkers.

Course Outline

• Introduction

• OSHA’s revamped recordkeeping system and how it makes workplaces safer.
• OSHA data on a national level and how these record affect other workplaces.
• Businesses that are exempt and employee classifications.

• Recordkeeping

• Defining “work-related” injuries and illnesses.
• Recordable medical issues and how to identify them.
• Specific scenarios to help employees differentiate between conditions.
• Handling contaminations and contagious diseases in the workplace.
• An overview of the most common recordable illness: Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs).
• How to keep a proper MSD report, including the number of days a worker will be gone from work.
• Potentially recordable injuries like lacerations, puncture wounds, burns, and more.
• How to properly determine the severity of an injury.
• The transmission of deadly diseases such as HIV.
• Information on TB and the workers who are most at risk.
• How to record these illnesses and injuries according to OSHA standards.
• Information on the OSHA 300 “Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses”.
• The length of time that record must be kept and stored.

• Reporting workplace ailments

• Keeping information for managers short and basic.
• Determining exactly what happened in the event of an incident.
• The length of time reporting can take, and the importance of patience.