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Recordkeeping
22 OSHA and HazCom articles tagged "Recordkeeping" — practical, CFR-cited guidance verified against primary sources.
OSHA injury and illness recordkeeping (29 CFR 1904) governs the OSHA 300 Log, the 300A summary, and the 301 incident report — plus what counts as recordable, severe-injury reporting, and electronic submission through the ITA. These guides cover the recordability decision tree, the annual 300A posting, and common recordkeeping mistakes.
Your Crew Doesn't Have Email. Your Safety Software Demands It.
OSHA never asks whether a worker has an inbox. Most safety platforms do. The workaround crews reach for, one shared login for the whole trailer, destroys the one thing the records were supposed to prove: who did what.
The Job Ended. Who Can Still Ask for Your SDS?
When a crew demobilizes, the instinct is to shut off access. OSHA's text runs the other way: a safety data sheet is an exposure record, and the people who can ask for it include the ones who no longer work for you.
Who Can See Your OSHA 300 Log and Injury Records? Fewer People Than Your Software Thinks
A worker has a right to his own 301 — not his coworkers'. Six kinds of cases must not carry a name on the Log at all. And the respirator medical questionnaire says, in OSHA's own words, that your supervisor must not look at the answers. Who may see what, and how safety software quietly creates the violation it was bought to prevent.
Are Safety Incentive Programs Legal Under OSHA? What 1904.35 Actually Prohibits
Yes. Safety bonuses, zero-injury awards and post-incident drug testing are all legal under 29 CFR 1904.35(b)(1)(iv). What the rule prohibits is punishing a worker for reporting. OSHA's 2018 position, the precautions that keep a rate-based program lawful, and the program designs OSHA calls always permissible.
The GC Wants Your OSHA 300 Log Before You Can Bid. Do You Have to Provide It?
No OSHA rule requires you to hand your 300 Log to a general contractor, owner or prequalification platform — and if you choose to share it, 1904.29(b)(10) requires the employee names to come off first. Who actually holds a right to your records, what to send instead, and the redaction the rule makes mandatory.
The Four-Business-Hour Rule: Producing Your OSHA 300 Logs During an Inspection
When an OSHA compliance officer asks for your injury and illness records, 29 CFR 1904.40 gives you four business hours to hand over copies. What they can ask for, how far back it reaches, who counts as an authorized government representative, and why late production is a citation of its own.
Do SDSs Expire? How Often to Update Your SDS Binder
OSHA sets no expiration date on a Safety Data Sheet and no interval for reviewing your library — which is exactly why binders go stale. Here is who actually owes the update, what your compliance really turns on, a trigger-based review calendar, and what OSHA says to do with the sheet you're replacing.
Trained Too Late: The Data on New-Worker Injuries and OSHA's Only Top-10 Training Standard
The most dangerous stretch of a job is often the first few months. In the US, workers with a year or less on the job are about a quarter of the workforce but a third of the injuries that cost days away from work — and the one standard in OSHA's Top 10 whose entire subject is training gets cited thousands of times a year. This is the data on the training gap, and what OSHA actually requires to close it.
How to Calculate TRIR & DART from the OSHA 300 Log
Your OSHA 300 log holds every number you need to compute TRIR and DART. Here are the exact formulas, worked examples, the columns that feed each rate, and how to benchmark the result.