OSHA Recordkeeping for Managers and Supervisors

OSHA’s recordkeeping system offers employers and managers a powerful tool for improving workplace safety at their facilities. Recordkeeping helps employers document workplace injuries and illnesses, identify how they happen, and make decisions on the long-term improvement of workplace safety. This training focuses on management’s role in keeping records of illnesses and injuries per the OSHA standard, Part 1904.

This course starts out by helping managers and supervisors understand the definition of injuries and illnesses and which businesses are exempt from the Recordkeeping Standard. Understanding which illnesses and injuries fall under the category of work related, ensures the best action is taken to protect employees. Employees also have rights in keeping these records, and this course details those rights.

Use this course to help managers and supervisors understand their roles and responsibilities in recordkeeping. Recordkeeping practices help companies learn from their experiences today to become even safer places to work tomorrow.

   This course is in the Video On Demand format, to read about Video On Demand features click here.

Anyone in a management role

• Introduction
• The Importance of Recordkeeping
• Exempt Businesses
• Defining 'Injuries and Illnesses'
• What Are 'Work-Related' and 'New' Cases?
• The Three Key Recordkeeping Forms
• Employee Rights
• Other Recordkeeping Issues
• Conclusion

• OSHA Construction: Introduction to OSHA
• OSHA Recordkeeping For Managers And Supervisors
• OSHA Recordkeeping For Employees