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Any safety consultant in Minnesota can tell you that the last few years have brought about some pretty significant rules in the area of OSHA injury and illness recording and reporting regulations. Most recently, MN OSHA has expanded employers’ responsibilities to notify them (MN OSHA) of serious work-related injuries, including fatalities, traumatic amputations, and losses of eye(s).
If you really think about it, your OSHA 300 logs are a fundamental piece of your health and safety program. This is the document that help you and your safety consultant will use to identify where any problems may exist. The OSHA 300 logs are also important because it’s one of the very first documents you’ll be asked for during an OSHA inspection, so you better have them readily accessible and they better be correct. MN OSHA can issues citations and penalties for problems with your OSHA recording or reporting, but in fairness, that’s pretty rare except in egregious cases.
Unfortunately, even though the form was redesigned over a decade ago, when it was changed from the awkward and cumbersome OSHA 200 to the newer, sleeker OSHA 300, the rules are still more confusing then they need to be. Safety consultants are inundated with questions about whether or not a specific employer must maintain the OSHA 300 and 300A, what types of incidents must be recorded on the log, and how are they entered, and when must OSHA actually be notified of incidents.
For this reason, Sotera Consulting, LLC is offering a FREE assessment of your OSHA recording and reporting processes and records. Just call us at 612 597 6463, and our safety consultants will make all the necessary arrangements. Audits can be completed in just a few hours in some cases, and will be documented in a comprehensive written report that includes a summary of the audit that was conducted by our MN OSHA safety consultants, including findings and recommendations.
Even though our safety consultants are MN based, they can help employers in nearly every state, including states under Federal OSHA jurisdiction, including WI. But you have to act fast, this offer expires on June 1, 2016!