How to Check Out a Business on OSHA

The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) was enacted for worker safety and health in the workplace after many years of attempts to allow industry to assume the responsibility. Every employer covered by OSHA and with 10 or more employees must keep injury and illness records using forms 300 and 300A Log and Summary. They must be maintained for a five-year period and available to employees and OSHA inspectors.

Things You'll Need

• Computer
• Printer
• Paper
• Acrobat reader software
• Online access
• OSHA 300 forms
• OSHA 300A log forms

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Instructions

• 1

  Download OSHA 300A Log and Summary forms for the past five years via OSHA's website. Collect current-year OSHA 300 Forms and add to your database. It will be posted by calendar year. For example, in February 2010, the calendar year 2009 data must be posted. They can be taken down after April 30. Also the log itself does not have to be posted. However, the information contained in the log must be posted.

• 2

  Sort out the types and locations of the injuries or illness that occur and how frequently they've taken place. See if any deaths happened in the period due to accident or illness. This information will give you a recent history of illness or injury in the business.

• 3

  Continue the tracking year by year and note any new injuries or illnesses or repeats in the frequency of occurrence of existing ones.

  The posting of OSHA 300 logs is required even without any employee-related injuries or illnesses during the entire year.