Health and Safety

OSHA began accepting electronic submissions of forms 300, 300A and 301 on January 2, 2025 for records of injuries and illnesses in 2024. Check out the new requirements and learn who is required to record and report in this new course on The Construction Collaborative.

OSHA Recordkeeping and Reporting

Each year Liberty Mutual Insurance publishes a report to identify which types of injuries are costing the most in different industries. This is a little different that ranking incidents in terms of number of fatalities or days away from work. What it actually shows is that falls (including falls to lower levels and falls to the same level), overexertion, and struck-by incidents are responsible for 73.8% of all injury costs in the construction industry. Any thoughts?

I am working on digesting all 13 pages of the newly proposed OSHA heat standard. A few things that jump out at me that I have not heard people discussing (yet) are as follows:

1. This is being issued as a single standard that applies to all industries (General, Construction, Aggriculture, Maritime) as opposed to issuing several different industry standards like they did with silica

2. It follows the modern OSHA trend of requiring a written exposure control plan (similar to the newer confined space and silica standards)

3. It (finally) discusses the use of WBGT devices to monitor heat exposure and pegs the levels back to the (very old) NIOSH document that should have been adopted as a standard decades ago (Wet Bulb Globe Temperature)

4. It does not include discussion or suggestions for how multi employer worksites (such as construction projects) should be handled