Course Overview
To provide awareness training for employees about their employers' responsibilities for OSHA reporting and recordkeeping for workplace fatalities, injuries, and illnesses, as well as employees' involvement and rights related to reporting and records.
Upon successful completion of this course, you should have a better understanding of how to recognize:
- The purpose of OSHA requirements for work-related injury and illness recordkeeping and fatality reporting by employers.
- The types of organizations that must comply with work-related injury and illness recordkeeping and fatality reporting regulations.
- The criteria for work-related injury and illness.
- The purpose and guidelines for the basic work-related injury and illness record types required under 29CFR Part 1904.
- OSHA safeguards for privacy in employer recording of work-related illness and injury.
- Reporting requirements for work-related fatalities, severe injuries (amputations, losses of an eye), and hospitalizations.
- Employee involvement and rights related to work-related injury and illness reporting and recordkeeping.
- Employer responsibilities for providing work-related injury, illness and fatality records for OSHA inspection and investigation.