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OSHA’s Injury and Illness Recordkeeping Rule - 29 CFR Part 1904. The tool below provides links to the provisions of OSHA's Recordkeeping Rule, as well as select preamble excerpts, FAQs and Letters of Interpretation, organized by regulatory provision.
All employers, including those partially exempted by reason of company size or industry classification, must report to OSHA any workplace incident that results in a fatality, in-patient hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye.
This section highlights OSHA standards and documents related to healthcare. The General Duty Clause of the OSH Act (the law that created OSHA) requires employers to provide workers with a safe workplace that does not have any known hazards that cause or are likely to cause death or serious injury.
28 lut 2012 · Introduction. Ensuring safety at work essentially means preventing accidents at work. An accident at work can be defined in different ways depending on the context in which it is used.
WHO IS COVERED UNDER THE NEW RULE? All employers under OSHA jurisdiction must report all work-related fatalities, hospitalizations, amputations, and losses of an eye, even employers who are exempt from routinely keeping OSHA injury and illness records due to company size or industry.
Recording or reporting a work-related injury, illness, or fatality does not mean that the employer or employee was at fault, that an OSHA rule has been violated, or that the employee is eligible for workers' compensation or other benefits. [82 FR 20548, May 3, 2017] Subpart B—Scope. Note to subpart B:
4 gru 2023 · OSHA considers an injury or illness to be work related if an “event or exposure in the work environment either caused or contributed to the resulting condition or significantly aggravated a pre-existing injury or illness.”
