OSHA's Injury Reporting (what's a recordable injury)
1910.4.7 OSHA's Injury Reporting Standard can be a complicated question. In fact there are many questions that are a part of the standard. I going to review some here but I believe that it is a fact that many Safety Professionals often times struggle with the myriad of question they get from their own production teams. Some managers from operations in some organizations fall into the mire of their own muscle memory about what is a recordable. More than once in various work setting I have found the necessity to revisit the OSHA standard on reporting injuries to get clarity on new injury incident to make the reporting determination. Sometimes when organizations hire people that have worked a few month straddled with also handling the safety role while doing production management the get burned in memory on how that organization read the standard. Often times that version is not at all the correct way to determine recordability of a specific case.
So, I am not going to outline here every one of those questions about what is or is not a recordable. I am going to link the OSHA page for us here at the end of the blog on recordability for injuries. In this world of corporate 'hat' handouts to managers and supervisors, many taking on the role of Safety as a hat, are not fully equipped with the knowledge to properly address many safety issues that arise in even small organization. Like I mentioned many EHS professionals refer back to the OSHA standards.
Some simple elements do help when needing to determine what type of clinic or non clinic services are classified as needing to go on the OSHA 300 log. OSHA simplifies this question by having taken the approach of creating a specific list of First Aid provided to the injured employee, that are not required to be logged on the OSHA 300 log. Then all other medical treatments are required to be logged.
Here is the complete list of First Aid services which do not have to be logged as a recordable on the OHSA 300 log.
Here is the whole standard for Recording Injuries. Its worth while reviewing if you are responsible for safety in your organization.
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