Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)
Last updated by ess-home on 10/24/2008
U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) - United States
OSHA is an agency of the United States Department of Labor. It was created by Congress under the Occupational Safety and Health Act, on December 29, 1970. Its mission is to prevent work-related injuries, illnesses, and deaths by issuing and enforcing rules for workplace safety and health.
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Management System and Data Management Implications
To protect your people, operations and community, you need to capture data about all kinds of incidents.
Tracking and reporting are vital but they are not enough. You must also manage information about root causes and trends in order to prioritize risks and implement corrective actions. IHS software does all of that (and more) so you can take control and minimize the likelihood of future incidents.
The challenges are to be able to collect, manage, analyze, and share data from across the organization in an accurate and consistent manner. To effectively demonstrate compliance, a data management system can be useful to:
- Track OSHA injuries and illnesses with the OSHA 300 Log, OSHA 300A and OSHA 301 forms.
- Provide calculations for OSHA Total Incident Rate; Days Away Incident Rate; Severity Rates; Restricted Days Incident Rate; and Days Away, Restricted or Transferred rate (DART).
- Track tasks which can be assigned and tracked to completion, including those issued through an existing computerized maintenance management system (CMMS)
- Manage information about root causes and trends in order to prioritize risks and implement corrective actions.
- Assist with compliance with multiple requirements can be documented by completing a single task.
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Fast Facts
| Jurisdiction |
United States and territories |
| Applicability |
OSHA's statutory authority extends to most nongovernmental workplaces where there are employees. State and local government workers are excluded from Federal coverage, however, states operating their own workplace safety and health programs under plans approved by the U.S. Department of Labor are required to extend their coverage to public sector (state and local government) employees. |
| Regulatory Driver |
29 CFR 1904, 29 CFR 1910, 29 CFR 1926 |
| Promulgating Entity |
US Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration |
| Enforcing Entity |
US Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration |
| Entity Summary |
http://www.osha.gov/ |
| Regulatory Text |
http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owasrch.search_form?
p_doc_type=STANDARDS&p_toc_level=0&p_keyvalue= |
| Regulatory Submissions Required |
If you receive a Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses Form from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), or a BLS designee, you must promptly complete the form and return it following the instructions contained on the survey form.
Within eight (8) hours after the death of any employee from a work-related incident or the in-patient hospitalization of three or more employees as a result of a work-related incident, you must orally report the fatality/multiple hospitalization by telephone or in person to the Area Office of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), U.S. Department of Labor, that is nearest to the site of the incident (State run OSHA Programs may differ from this federal requirement). |
More Information
For details about how the IHS solutions can help your organization comply with OSHA, call 800.289.6116 or email us.
