What’s Recordable and What’s Not: Legal Update on OSHA 300/301 Logs and More

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Time: 1:00 pm ET (12 noon CT, 11:00 am MT, 10:00 am PT)

Length: 60 minutes

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Registration - Teleconference plus CD: $308.00

Sponsored by B21 Publishing

COURSE DESCRIPTION: You go to work each day to prevent your colleagues, employees and friends from getting injured or killed on the job. Recordkeeping and paper-pushing isn’t what gets you out of bed in the morning.

But dealing with OSHA 300/301 logs and the endless list of recordkeeping regulations is a reality of the job -- and the price of getting it wrong is high. Even simple errors can prompt OSHA to start looking over your shoulder, auditing your facility or issuing fines.

This presentation will address what you really need to know about OSHA recordkeeping regulations, including OSHA 300/301 logs, and other mandatory reports. You’ll discover how to maintain records in a way that will minimize legal liability and fully comply with regulatory requirements.

Adele Abrams, Esq. – a nationally recognized expert on safety law – will outline document retention requirements for a host of OSHA standards, describe document destruction policies that are effective, and explain the distinctions between documents that must be produced during inspections and those that can only be required by subpoena or through litigation discovery.

Participants will get sound legal advice on issues including:

What are the distinctions between immediately reportable incidents and those that must simply be logged?
How do reporting and recording requirements vary if an injury occurs while the employee is performing work outside of an OSHA-regulated worksite, such as driving on a highway or doing construction at a mine?
How are reports and records managed best in multi-employer worksite situations?
How long must mandatory records for safety and health programs be maintained?
Do disciplinary records ever have to be shared with OSHA?
What is the best way to document training, and can these documents be used against a company in OSHA litigation?
What sanctions can occur if records are destroyed following an accident or inspection event?
Must audit records and near-miss reports be produced if OSHA requests them during an inspection?

As a result of this session you'll be able to:

More effectively manage OSHA inspections and investigations;
Compile more accurate data to track your company’s progress in reducing injuries and illnesses, and to determine your exposure to site-specific targeted enforcement activities;
Create document retention and destruction programs that will pass legal muster;
Prevent proactive audits and other self-evaluative documents from being used against the company as a blueprint for enforcement activity;
Reduce legal costs by reducing citations for paperwork violations!

In Addition, our speaker will discuss and highlight OSHA's National Emphasis Program on Recordkeeping and its relation to safety incentive programs.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Adele Abrams, Esq., CMSP, REA is an attorney recognized as a national expert on occupational safety and health. She represents employers and contractors nationwide in OSHA and MSHA litigation and workers' compensation cases, and provides safety and health training and consultation services. She is a Certified Mine Safety Professional, a Department of Labor-approved trainer, and a trained mediator. She is also a professional member of the American Society of Safety Engineers, the International Society of Mine Safety Professionals, and the Energy and Mineral Law Foundation. She is chairman of the National Safety Council’s Business & Industry Division committee on regulatory and legal affairs.

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