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OSHA’s Health and Safety requirements : new recordkeeping and reporting for amputations [US]
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released an interpretation letter dated December 16, 2014 on its new recordkeeping requirements…
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released an interpretation letter dated December 16, 2014 on its new recordkeeping requirements that became effective on January 1, 2015. OSHA’s letter clarifies the types of injuries that must be reported to OSHA.OSHA interprets its new recordkeeping and reporting requirements
In response to OSHA’s new recordkeeping and reporting requirements, OSHA released an interpretation letter to clarify the new rules, which require amputations and the loss of an eye to be reported to OSHA.- Amputations must be reported to OSHA, but avulsions do not. Employers should first rely on the opinion of a health care professional on whether the injury is an amputation or an avulsion.
- If an employer is unable to obtain a health care professional’s opinion, the employer should rely on the definition, which is the “traumatic loss of a limb or other external body part.”