OSHA Required Posting

“I received an email recently that said I need to post an OSHA form. What’s that about?”

My HR Survival Tip

Every February 1st you are required to post the OSHA Form 300A (not the OSHA Log). The Form 300A is a summary of all your workplace-related injuries and illnesses in the previous calendar year.

I mentioned that Form 300A is a summary. What it’s summarizing are the items you were putting on Form 300 (no “A”) all year… that’s the detail form. You only post the summary form. Even if you had nothing to report, you still post a completed Form 300A with “0” as the total in each column.

Form 300A remains posted until April 30th. Make sure you’ve posted it near your employment law poster… they both must be easily seen by employees. However, if you have employees working on job sites, you need to make a copy of the completed Form and ensure those employees have it available. If you have company vehicles that are always on job sites, you might put it in there.

If you haven’t been maintaining your details, this could take a bit of time. OSHA has very specific rules about what needs to be reported and how it’s classified. You can get the guidelines and forms online from OSHA by clicking here.

Don’t wait, the posting deadline is next Monday. Oh, in case you’re thinking no one will notice if you don’t post the form… they have people walk into companies asking to see this and you could be fined if it’s not posted or your employees don’t know where it is.