Safety and Compliance Documentation & Record Keeping 5

Question 1

An employee's injury involves a sexual assault. How should the case appear on the OSHA 300 Log?

Accepted Answer

Write "privacy case" in place of the employee's name

Answer

For privacy concern cases, 1904.29 requires entering "privacy case" instead of the name and keeping a separate confidential list.

Question 2

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?

Accepted Answer

Update the OSHA 300 Log to reflect the change

Answer

1904.33(b) requires the 300 Log to be updated for newly discovered cases and classification changes during the retention period.

Question 3

A temporary worker supplied by a staffing agency is injured while supervised day to day by the host company. Who records the injury?

Accepted Answer

The host employer that provides day-to-day supervision

Answer

Under 1904.31, the employer that supervises the worker day to day records the injury on its OSHA 300 Log.

Question 4

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?

Accepted Answer

100 or more

Answer

Establishments with 100 or more employees in designated industries must submit 300 and 301 data electronically in addition to the 300A.

Question 5

An employee's audiogram shows a Standard Threshold Shift. When is the case recordable on the OSHA 300 Log?

Accepted Answer

When the total hearing level is also 25 dB or more above audiometric zero in the same ear

Answer

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.

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Safety and Compliance Documentation & Record Keeping 5