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    • What if you are injured at work?
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    • Before an injury or illness
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    • Cause code assistance
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OSHA recordkeeping decisions

Coordinators

  • Initial coordinator actions
  • Processing the claim
  • Enterprise database
  • OSHA recordkeeping decisions
  • Cause code assistance
  • Training resources for coordinators
  • Return to Work Guidelines
  • Contacts

OSHA Recordkeeping Decisions

  • Injury or illness: definition
  • Work-relatedness
  • New case determination
  • Death, loss of consciousness, and significant injury or illness
  • Days Away, Restricted, or Transfer
  • Medical treatment beyond first aid
  • Needlestick reporting
  • Medical removal
  • Hearing loss
  • Tuberculosis: OSHA recordkeeping
  • Update the OSHA record
  • OSHA recording: No
  • OSHA recording: Yes
  • Recording an entry: Worker’s comp vs. OSHA summary

Here are summary sheets or guides with some useful tips on OSHA recordkeeping for a campus Worker’s Compensation Coordinator.

  1. OSHA Tab Guide doc
  2. Worker's Compensation Entry vs. OSHA Recordkeeping doc
  3. Lost and Restricted Days docx
  4. OSHA Reporting Information pdf
  5. Recordability-First Aid vs Medical Treatment pdf

Use the OSHA recordable decision tree

You can use the decision tree below to determine whether an injury or illness is an OSHA recordable event. If you need more information on the topic in a certain box, you can click on the box to read more.

Injury or illness definition Work Relatedness New Case Determination Involve death loss of conciousness or severe injury or illness one or more day away medical treatment needlestick injury or cut contaminated with another persons blood or other potentially infectious material medical removal per rules in an OSA health standard occupational hearing loss Tuberculosis infection Update record Do not record Record the injury or illness

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