2021 OSHA Compliance & Recordkeeping Virtual Master Class

Overview

Remain in compliance while learning from the comfort of your own home! We’re taking our topical master classes to the virtual space! These 2-day, 4-hour-long courses are interactive and educational and offer a unique learning experience that will help you advance your career and keep your organization in compliance with the various laws.

On September 30, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published additional information to help employers apply the agency’s existing injury and illness recording and reporting requirements to the coronavirus.

With no end to COVID-19 in sight, environment, health, and safety (EHS) professionals and employers must know how to calculate reporting deadlines for in-patient hospitalizations and fatalities and clarify the meaning of the term “incident” as it relates to work-related coronavirus in-patient hospitalizations and fatalities.

By the end of this virtual training, you’ll understand safety recordkeeping essentials that can be applied to any injury or illness—and any situation.

• What is recordable with respect to COVID-19 and other ailments?
• The differences between “first aid” and “medical treatment,” how to determine whether an injury or illness is work-related, and more
• What is immediately reportable as a Severe Injury and how to deal with completion of OSHA RRI forms
• Best practices for completing the OSHA Forms 300, 301, and 300A and how to avoid becoming your company’s designated felon
• Most common OSHA injury and illness recordkeeping mistakes to avoid and tips for effective root cause incident analysis to ensure accurate reporting
• Best practices for nonmandatory records and documentation, including principles of legal privilege for safety audits, consultant recommendations, record retention, and destruction policies
• How to train remote workers and supervisors to report and record any work-related illnesses and injuries that occur “on the clock”
• Documentation related to PPE assessments, medical evaluations, and exposure monitoring results
• Latest federal OSHA policy on reporting and recording COVID cases, and how state plan states’ requirements may differ under COVID emergency standards
• OSHA’s new medical records officer position, and what the new rule means for OSHA recordkeeping audits
• OSHA’s new disclosure of employer e-data, and what that means for employer privacy and contractor prequalification
• How recordkeeping enforcement is likely to change under the Biden administration