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Tuesday, January 26, 2016 04:00 AM


OSHA safety reportingAccording to OSHA’s standard regulations for recording and reporting occupational injuries and illness, it’s time for business owners to review their 2015 records. Their recordkeeping regulations state that at the end of each calendar year, a company executive must:

  • Review the OSHA 300 Log to verify that the entries are complete and accurate, and correct any deficiencies identified;
  • Create an annual summary of injuries and illnesses recorded on the OSHA 300 Log;
  • Certify the summary; and
  • Post the annual summary.

By now, business owners in compliance will have completed these steps. If you’re a little behind schedule, visit the OSHA web site for details on the correct implementation of these regulations.

The completed summary must be posted “in a conspicuous place or places where notices to employees are customarily posted. You must ensure that the posted annual summary is not altered, defaced or covered by other material.” One ALCC member recommends that the summary be posted next to the federal employment posters in the office.

Summaries must be posted “no later than February 1 of the year following the year covered by the records, and keep the posting in place until April 30.”