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Effective February 1, 2009 every employer should have posted an OSHA 300A summary of work-related injuries, illnesses and accidents in 2008.

Employers are required to post only the summary, not the entire OSHA 300 log each year.

Some information on the OSHA 300A should be kept confidential by omitting the employees name or the nature of the injuries. If a female employee is sexually assulated in the workplace, for example, her name and the exact nature of the injury should not be listed. Any illness or injury that could potentially be embarrassing to the employee, should not be specified. For example, if a male employee suffered a serious injury to the groin area might only be listed as “laceration.”

The OSHA 300A summary of workplace injuries should remain posted until April 30, 2009. The record serves in part to remind employers and employees of potential hazards i (more…)

According to a report just issued by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, or BLS, employers have succeeded in reducing workplace injuries.

Required safety posters, on display at every workplace, are one of the tools that have made this achievement possible.

According to the BLS, the rate of workplace injuries and illnesses declined for the fifth consecutive year.

When accidents do occur, employers can report them, and plan corrective actions, using the Accident/Injury Report.  

The U.S. Department of Labor reports that approximately 4 million work-related injuries and illnesses occurred in 2007.  This translates to a rate of 4.2 nonfatal injuries for each 100 full-time employees. That rate is a 4.5% reduction from the 4.4 injuries per 100 in 2006.

Every employer is required to (more…)

Kansas workplace fatalities numbers are just in, and it is not a pretty picture. The most recent figures show a 5%  increase in workplace fatalities, from 81 per year to 85 per year.

Even more shocking, 93% of those killed at work were male according to the Kansas Department of Labor. Of the total 85 fatalities, 79 were male. Only 7% of the workplace fatalities, or 6 individuals killed, were female.

Under Kansas law, employers must display safety posters in the workplace. Federal law requires (more…)