Recordkeeping: It's that time of year again

Injury and illness recordkeeping has always been an important part of OSHA's workplace safety efforts. Accurate counting of workplace injuries and illnesses is essential to identify and address safety and health hazards and to ensure that workers receive appropriate medical treatment.

And with the renewed Congressional and Agency attention on workplace injuries and illness, the accuracy of your records is more important than ever. During an OSHA inspection, the Compliance Officer will usually ask to look at the last three year's worth of OSHA 300 Logs.

It's also time to complete and post OSHA's Form 300A Summary of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses even if there were no work-related injuries or illnesses during the year.

Given that your program may come under intense OSHA scrutiny in the near future, how confident are you that your records would pass the test?

KellerOnline has a number of tools and resources which can help you with your OSHA 300 Injury and Illness Log. You can maintain all of your injury and illness records right on KOL through the Incidents (Form 300/301) feature found in the Interactive Tools area. You can create an individual record for each employee, and track all injuries and illnesses that employee may experience. Coming soon – KOL will be adding an Incident Portal feature which will allow you to provide access to your designated employees so that they can enter and edit incident records in the Incidents (Form 300/301) recordkeeping feature.

KOL provides a Frequently Asked Questions – Recordkeeping (injury and illness) area which contains many of the most commonly asked questions regarding the 300 Log. You may find answers to your questions in this area.

Within the Reference Area, KOL provides you with access to the OSHA Recordkeeping Handbook which contains not only the regulation, but the related interpretations for the recording and reporting standard. The Handbook provides insight into OSHA's thinking on a variety of recordkeeping issues.

If you're still not sure, you can submit a question through the Personal Assistant feature and receive personalized feedback on the issue at hand.

For more information, visit www.jjkeller.com.