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OSHA recordkeeping and penalty tools

OSHA recordkeeping and citation penalties, worked out the way OSHA works them out.

Two tools for the two OSHA documents a safety manager has to produce: the injury and illness log you keep all year, and the citation that arrives after an inspection. They look like separate problems. They are stops on the same line.

The line an injury travels

  1. An injury or illness happens

    The clock starts the next day, not this one.

  2. Was it work related

    1904.5 presumes it was. Nine closed exceptions, five needing the non-work cause to be the only cause.

  3. Does it go on the 300 Log, and in which column

    One check mark, two day counts, and the day of the injury in neither.

    This stop is served300 Log case worksheet

  4. Post the annual summary

    1 February to 30 April, then keep the records five years.

  5. An inspection arrives

    Failing to report a fatality, hospitalisation, amputation or loss of an eye under 1904.39 is where the two lines meet.

  6. A citation is issued, and priced

    Reductions come off serially, not summed, and one willful item changes the price of every other item.

    This stop is servedCitation penalty calculator

Both show the working

Neither returns a number and asks to be trusted. Every counted day traces back to the dates that produced it, and every reduction names the paragraph it came from.

All of it is a federal work

Part 1904, the OSHA 300 forms and the Field Operations Manual carry no copyright, so the lists and tables appear in full. Each tool names its source and the date it was read.

Both tools are free, run entirely in your browser, and send nothing anywhere.

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