It is important to get you safety recordkeeping in order. A significant part of this is the injury and illness log (OSHA form 300) most employers must keep. As in years past, you must post the previous year’s summary of your log (OSHA form 300A) in your facilities between February 1 and April 30 of every year.
AWC Retro keeps these records for you in Risk Console. To ensure they are totally accurate, you need to inform your claims coordinator if there are any recordable injuries or illnesses that are not claims. An example of such is a recordable hearing loss
where the employee does not file a workers’ comp claim. To access your logs and summaries, log into Risk Console and click on the “OSHA” tab in the top ribbon and a report will be generated.
300A for the Feds too
A reminder that you may also be required to submit your 300A information to Federal OSHA. Starting in 2020 (for 2019 year records) certain employers in Washington state must submit their summary through OSHA’s data portal. This information must
be submitted by March 2 of the following year. Not sure if you need to electronically submit? Check out our webinar on the topic, this decision tree, and find more information on our recordkeeping webpage.
Still not sure, contact retro staff.
COVID-19 records needed too
This year has been dominated by the coronavirus, and recordkeeping does not escape this. Your city needs to ensure that COVID-19 illnesses that are work-related are tracked on your log form. For a COVID-19 case to be placed on your organization’s
Injury/Illness Log three criteria must be met:
- a diagnosis of COVID-19 has been confirmed,
- the case is work-related, and
- the case meets at least one of the general recording criteria.
Work is not the only place an employees can contract COVID-19. Employers must make a good-faith effort to review available and relevant information to make an informed determination. Employers must consider the germane facts and evidence, including co-workers
who have tested positive who interact with the affected employee, and duties that place the worker in contact with locations and individuals where community transmission is currently occurring. Employers may use salient medical documentation to inform
them in this decision as well. If an honest and well-conducted review of available records and information does not show it is more likely than not that a workplace exposure caused the affected employee’s COVID-19 illness, then the employer
does not record the illness case on the log.
For questions on this or any other recordkeeping topic, contact retro staff.