Question

summarizes OSHA’s requirements for recordable injuries and illnesses. The paper should include, at a minimum:

a. Which employers are subject to the standards.

b. What constitutes a recordable illness or injury.

c. What differentiates an injury from an illness.

d. A description of the three principal OSHA forms required under the record-keeping standard to include their purpose and how an employer is required to manage them.

e. Examples of when an injury or illness is not work-related even if the incident occurs in the “work environment”

Answer 1

Answer:

OSHA’s requirements for recordable injuries and illnesses are as below: The recordable injury and illness is considered when the injury or illness is a violation of any of the OSHA’s regulations or laws. The OSHA law and regulations need to be comply at the work place and if any violation found against any person and he injured or faced illness, then the incident will be recognized as OSHA’s recordable incident at the work place.

a. Which employers are subject to the standards: All the employee working at the work place or at subsidiary work location which falls under this company are applicable under the OSHA’s recordable incident. OSHA covers all the employee, contract employee etc.

b. What constitutes a recordable illness or injury: A recordable injury is the injury which meets the OSHA recordable injury definition. Like if a person is slipped in the work place and is out of office for one working day. Then this incident will be recorded as OSHA’s recordable incident at the work place. If any person is working at height and he fall down and injured his leg. Then this will be called as OSHA’s recordable injury. Thus any injury that resulted due to OSHA non-compliances and the employee is not able to work for one day, then it will be considered as recordable injury for the plant.

c. What differentiates an injury from an illness : The key difference between the injury and illness is injury result in the physical damage to the person, where as illness result in non-damage to the person and the person may not feeling well, may suffer with fever or other body pain, but he do not have any damage on his body. Injury is physical damage whereas illness is sickness

d. A description of the three principal OSHA forms required under the record-keeping standard to include their purpose and how an employer is required to manage them: Following three forms are required for the record keeping and record management in the OSHA as below

• Form 300,
• Form 300A
• Form 301

The work permit forms are also used in OSHA compliances for the hazardous and dangerous work areas like

• Electrical work
• Height construction work
• Site construction work

e. Examples of when an injury or illness is not work-related even if the incident occurs in the “work environment: This type of cases also applicable for the OSHA incidents because these incidents are happening in the work place. All the issues happening inside the work place are considered under OSHA either they are work related or non-work related.

• Employee slipped in the canteen and got his hand injured. This is an OSHA recordable incident as it happened inside the plant’s canteen.
• Employee while going up stair, lose control and fall down due to non availability of hand guiders on the stairs.