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ASSOCIATIONINSIGHT Portable Sanitation Association International News BIWEEKLY EDITION JANUARY 6, 2021 Page 5 Continued on page 6 Safety Update: What is Your Company Doing February 1 through April 30, 2021? By Jeff Wigley, Past PSAI President "If your answer to the title of this article is posting your company's OSHA 300 Logs in your workplace, you are correct," says Terri Wigley. Terri, retired co-owner of Pit Stop Sanitation in Atlanta, continues to champion the cause of workplace safety with her volunteer work in our industry. She currently serves as secretary for the Georgia Onsite Wastewater Association (GOWA) and has given numerous presentations on workplace safety dealing primarily with PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) and OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) reporting. Terri's experience with the various details, rules, and regulations of OSHA allows her to provide useful summary information for the rest of us. Overview The OSHA Safety Reporting Program is a federal requirement to report safety in the workplace. The documents used to report this data are Forms 300, 300A, and 301. In 2002, OSHA established the current posting dates for Form 300A in the workplace from February 1 to April 30. Is your company in compliance with this requirement? Terri reflects on her experience, noting, "As a start-up company in 1995, we were unaware of this federal requirement. In fact, it was a few years later at a small roundtable at a PSAI event that we were alerted to the existence of this program. I think in recent years, the PSAI's continued emphasis and education concerning OSHA's rules and regulations is fantastic. This is yet another benefit of membership." The OSHA Forms 1. OSHA Form 300 is the "Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses." This document lists each job- related injury by employee name, job title, where the injury or illness occurred, description of the injury or fatality, and total days away from work. This listing is maintained in a file and the records are to be kept for at least five years although Terri recommends storing these "indefinitely, particularly when serious injuries have occurred." 2. OSHA Form 300A is the "Summary of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses." This form must be posted annually. This document provides three areas of summary information which protects individual confidentiality. • The first section, "Number of Cases," summarizes the number of "reportable cases" (see #3 on page 6) from the previous year, total number of cases with days away from work, and total number of cases with job transfer or restriction. • The second section, "Number of Days," provides a total number of days away from work for all cases as well as the total number of days of job transfer or restriction. • The final section, "Injury and Illness Types," provides summary-only information concerning injury and illness types. If the company has no incidents, "zero" must be recorded and the Summary Form is still to be posted for the required three-month period. Terri Wigley

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