1904 osha Flashcards
Learn record keeping basics
When is injury record keeping required
• Vending machines: ben ten stuck in the vending machine using his watch to get out.
When the employer has 10 or more employees during any part of the previous year or is part of a specific industry classified by NAICS North America Industry classification system
When does every employer need to report an injury?
• Employment board: has and eye and toe stapled to the board on an employee hospitalization
all employers must report to OSHA any workplace incident that results in an employee’s fatality, inpatient hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye
what is a dumb recordable.
• Trophies: 2 employees get in a fight before checking in and hurt each out
Fights among employees before they even check in.
What is a dumb word related injury
• Ear plugs: person slips on a frozen ear plug in the parking lot doing a back flip landing on his head and hurts his back before even checking in and gets a recordable.
Slips on sidewalk walking to mill and receives a back injury before even checking in.
What is a dumb working related injury
• Bench: Person gets rewarded an OSHA recordable for standing up from a bench and pulling a hamstring screaming in pain rolling across the whole mill. Doc Urich says it’s because you’re a fat monster so you’re on your own.
Walking and pulling a muscle. Its work related unless doctor proves otherwise.
What is all included in the workplace establishment?
• PPE sign: with a road map and parking lot of the plant saying this is out establishment
company parking lots, access roads, and location where 1 or more employees work
o What is the exception to injuries on company grounds?
• Entry cut up saw: cutting up car collision parts and homes from commuting vehicles of employees.
Motor vehicle collisions that happened during commute to and from work
What are exception to loss for consciousness.
• Cat walk: an employee was walking up the cat walk first flight and feel down from low blood sugar, she ate a donut and made a second and had a seizure, the third attempt she feel asleep and slowly rolled down the steps.
exception allows employers to exclude cases where a loss of consciousness is due solely to a personal health condition, such as epilepsy, diabetes, or narcolepsy.
Injures that are not work related
Train gates: a person voluntarily held the gates open for me while I was eating a hot dog. I wanted to look good for this lady so midway through I combed my hair back, But then a had a common cold cough so I went back
Volunteer activities, eating / drinking, personal grooming, common cold, and metal illnesses.
How do I handle a case if it is not obvious whether the precipitating event or exposure occurred in the work environment or occurred away from work?
• Patch line #2: One little leprechaun got fed up with his work hopped out of the machine and stab the employees.
Evaluate workers duties and determine if one or more events or exposures in the work environment either caused or contributed to the condition or significantly aggravated a pre-existing condition
Why might an employer require an EE to go to a second and what might this do
• U-turner: we are going to turn this doctor upside down and hope for the best.
To eliminate a word related injury. If you receive recommendations from two or more physicians or other licensed health care professionals, you must make a decision as to which recommendation is the most authoritative (best documented, best reasoned, or most authoritative), and record the case based upon that recommendation
What is the recording criteria for a OSHA work related injury/ illness?
• Exit: I might exit this life in the future in hopes of transferring into a new one where medical treatment is better. Don’t administer first aid on me, but do help if I loss consciousness.
Death, days away from work, restricted work or transfer to another job, medical treatment beyond first aid, or loss of consciousness
An employee purchased and used a rigid wrist brace. The doctor at the clinic stated that while the brace was not necessary, if the worker felt he was getting pain relief by using the brace, he should continue to wear it. Is this recordable
• Finishing break room computer: employees gets wrist strains using the computer all day. They come up with the stupid idea to put on glove immobilize for precaution.
Yes, it is a recommendation above first aid designed to immobilize a body part
What is the recording criteria for blood
• Finishing break room lunch table: Is full of bags of blood some people get it on them, but their okay. Other get HIV or get cut on the corner of the table and are exposed of someone else’s blood.
If gets on you and you don’t get any diseases your fine. If you get a cut from an object with potential infectious Material it’s a recorder.
Do I count the day on which the injury occurred or the illness began?
• Stacker: stacking up panels is demolished by an elephant. GP had overnight shipping and got a new stacker the next day.
No. begin counting days away on the day after the injury occurred or the illness began
How do I count weekends, holidays, or other days the employee would not have worked anyway? Or becomes ill on a Friday and reports to work on a Monday, and was not scheduled to work on the weekend?
• Patch line #1: We are going to patch up this weekend as safe unless the doc cuts a hole into our plans
If the physician or licensed doctor said they shouldn’t of worked or had restriction those days it is a recordable. If no s7ch paper work is created your fine
