Under a revised rule, effective January 1, 2015 employers will be required to notify OSHA of work-related fatalities within eight hours, and work-related in-patient hospitalizations, amputations or loss of an eye within 24 hours.
California businesses have been operating under these new rules already.
Previously, OSHA’s regulations required report of work-related fatalities and in-patient hospitalizations of three or more employees.
So if an employee is sent to the hospitals, you have 24 hours to notify OSHA of this incident.
If an employee cuts off the tip of their finger, that is now consider an amputation.
All employers covered by the Occupational Safety and Health Act, even those who are exempt from maintaining injury and illness records (10 or fewer employees), are required to comply with OSHA’s new reporting requirements.
25 new industries — such as “bakeries and tortilla manufacturers,” auto dealers, building supplies, beer, wine and liquor stores, performing arts companies and lessors of real estate are now require to keep an OSHA 300.
What is most concerning; a small incident can be cause for a larger inspection.
On the other hand, with such a potential increase in reporting, OSHA could be so overcome, they would exponentially need more resources to meet the impact.
Here are some links that will help you understand the NEW rules, the impact it will have on your business and the new classification of businesses that will be require keeping the OSHA logs.
www.osha.gov/recordkeeping2014/index.html
www.osha.gov/recordkeeping2014/reporting_industries.html
www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/ppt1/RK1exempttable.html
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