Documentation & Record Keeping Flashcards
7 cards from real Safety and Compliance practice questions. Tap to flip, then mark Knew It or Still Learning — missed cards come back until you master them.
Read the first 7 Documentation & Record Keeping flashcards as text
An employee's injury involves a sexual assault. How should the case appear on the OSHA 300 Log?
Answer: Write "privacy case" in place of the employee's name
For privacy concern cases, 1904.29 requires entering "privacy case" instead of the name and keeping a separate confidential list.
During the 5-year retention period, an employer learns that a previously logged case should have been classified as a days-away case. What must be done?
Answer: Update the OSHA 300 Log to reflect the change
1904.33(b) requires the 300 Log to be updated for newly discovered cases and classification changes during the retention period.
A temporary worker supplied by a staffing agency is injured while supervised day to day by the host company. Who records the injury?
Answer: The host employer that provides day-to-day supervision
Under 1904.31, the employer that supervises the worker day to day records the injury on its OSHA 300 Log.
Under the 2024 OSHA electronic submission rule, establishments with how many employees in designated high-hazard industries must also submit Form 300 and 301 data each year?
Answer: 100 or more
Establishments with 100 or more employees in designated industries must submit 300 and 301 data electronically in addition to the 300A.
An employee's audiogram shows a Standard Threshold Shift. When is the case recordable on the OSHA 300 Log?
Answer: When the total hearing level is also 25 dB or more above audiometric zero in the same ear
Under 1904.10, a case is recordable when there is an STS and the hearing level in the same ear is 25 dB or more above audiometric zero.
How long must a hazardous waste generator keep copies of signed manifests under EPA RCRA rules?
Answer: 3 years from the date the waste was accepted by the initial transporter
40 CFR 262.40 requires generators to keep each signed manifest for at least 3 years.
A safety coordinator finds an error in a handwritten inspection record. What is the best documentation practice for correcting it?
Answer: Draw a single line through the error, write the correction, and initial and date it
A single-line strikethrough with the correction, initials, and date keeps the original entry readable and creates an audit trail.
How this page was made: written with AI tools and published by Nathan Beja, founder of Practice Test Geeks, who is responsible for its content. We have not yet matched this exam's facts to an official source, so confirm fees, dates and rules with the exam body. Not reviewed by a subject-matter expert. Editorial policy