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Chapter 296-27 WAC:
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(1) Purpose. Chapter 296-27 WAC requires employers to record work-related injuries and illnesses, and report to the division of occupational safety and health (DOSH) any work-related fatality, inpatient hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye within the time parameters specified in the rule.
(2) Scope. All employers covered by the Washington Industrial Safety and Health Act (WISHA) must comply with the requirements in this standard, unless otherwise specified.
The recordkeeping and reporting requirements in this chapter are separate and distinct from the Industrial Insurance Act, Title 51 RCW, for workers' compensation benefits. These requirements do not mean that the employer or employee was at fault, or that a safety or health rule has been violated.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 49.17.010, 49.17.040, and 49.17.050. WSR 15-11-066, § 296-27-00101, filed 5/19/15, effective 7/1/15; WSR 02-01-064, § 296-27-00101, filed 12/14/01, effective 1/1/02.]
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If you create records to comply with another government agency's injury and illness recordkeeping requirements, OSHA will consider those records as meeting federal recordkeeping requirements if OSHA accepts the other agency's records under a memorandum of understanding with that agency, or if the other agency's records contain the same information as required by 29 C.F.R., Part 1904. You may contact DOSH for help in determining whether your records meet OSHA's requirements.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 49.17.010, 49.17.040, and 49.17.050. WSR 15-11-066, § 296-27-00107, filed 5/19/15, effective 7/1/15; WSR 02-01-064, § 296-27-00107, filed 12/14/01, effective 1/1/02.]
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Recordkeeping forms and recording criteria.
This section describes the types of work-related injuries and illnesses that you must enter on the OSHA recordkeeping forms. This section also explains the OSHA forms that you must use to record work-related fatalities, injuries, and illnesses.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 49.17.010, 49.17.040, and 49.17.050. WSR 15-11-066, § 296-27-011, filed 5/19/15, effective 7/1/15; WSR 02-01-064, § 296-27-011, filed 12/14/01, effective 1/1/02.]
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(2) Additional criteria for specific cases such as needlestick and sharps injury cases, hearing loss cases, medical removal cases, and tuberculosis cases are located in WAC 296-27-01109 through 296-27-01115.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 49.17.010, 49.17.040, and 49.17.050. WSR 19-17-068, § 296-27-01101, filed 8/20/19, effective 1/1/20; WSR 15-11-066, § 296-27-01101, filed 5/19/15, effective 7/1/15; WSR 02-01-064, § 296-27-01101, filed 12/14/01, effective 1/1/02.]
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(1) The employer must record all work-related needlestick injuries and cuts from sharp objects that are contaminated with another person's blood or other potentially infectious material (as defined in this chapter and by chapter 296-823 WAC, Occupational exposure to bloodborne pathogens). The employer must enter the case on the OSHA 300 Log as an injury. To protect the employee's privacy, the employer may not enter the employee's name on the OSHA 300 Log (see the requirements for privacy concern cases in WAC 296-27-01119 (3) and (4)).
(2) The employer must record cuts, lacerations, punctures, and scratches only if they are work-related and involve contamination with another person's blood or other potentially infectious material. If the cut, laceration, or scratch involves a clean object, or a contaminant other than blood or other potentially infectious material, the employer needs to record the case only if it meets one or more of the general recording criteria in WAC 296-27-01107.
(3) If after recording the initial injury, the employee is later diagnosed with an infectious bloodborne disease, the employer must update both of the following on the OSHA 300 Log if it resulted in death, days away from work, restricted work, or job transfer:
(4) The employer must record incidents where an employee is splashed or exposed to blood or other potentially infectious material without being cut or scratched on the OSHA 300 Log as an illness if:
[Statutory Authority: RCW 49.17.010, 49.17.040, and 49.17.050. WSR 19-17-068, § 296-27-01109, filed 8/20/19, effective 1/1/20; WSR 15-11-066, § 296-27-01109, filed 5/19/15, effective 7/1/15. Statutory Authority: RCW 49.17.010, 49.17.040, 49.17.050, and 49.17.060. WSR 03-09-110, § 296-27-01109, filed 4/22/03, effective 8/1/03. Statutory Authority: RCW 49.17.010, [49.17].040, and [49.17].050. WSR 02-01-064, § 296-27-01109, filed 12/14/01, effective 1/1/02.]
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Recording criteria for medical removal cases.
(1) The employer must record any case that involves the medical removal of an employee on the OSHA 300 Log under the medical surveillance requirements.
(2) The employer must enter each medical removal case as either a case involving days away from work or a case involving restricted work activity. For medical removal cases that resulted from chemical exposure, you must check the "poisoning" column.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 49.17.010, 49.17.040, and 49.17.050. WSR 19-17-068, § 296-27-01111, filed 8/20/19, effective 1/1/20; WSR 15-11-066, § 296-27-01111, filed 5/19/15, effective 7/1/15; WSR 02-01-064, § 296-27-01111, filed 12/14/01, effective 1/1/02.]
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(1) The employer must use the following OSHA forms (or equivalent forms), for recording work-related injuries and illnesses:
(2) The employer must complete the OSHA forms as follows:
(3) The employer must follow these requirements for privacy concern cases when filling out the OSHA 300 Log:
(a) The employer may not enter the employee's name on the OSHA 300 Log. Instead, enter "privacy case" in the space normally used for the employee's name in order to protect the identity of the injured or ill employee when another employee, a former employee, or an authorized employee representative is provided access to the OSHA 300 Log under WAC 296-27-02111.
(b) The employer must keep a separate, confidential list of the case numbers and employee names for their privacy concern cases so they can update the cases and provide the information to the government if asked to do so.
(4) If the employer has a reasonable basis to believe that information describing the privacy concern case may be personally identifiable even though the employee's name has been omitted, they may use discretion in describing the injury or illness on both the OSHA 300 and 301 forms. The employer must enter enough information to identify the cause of the incident and the general severity of the injury or illness, but they do not need to include details of an intimate or private nature. For example, a sexual assault case could be described as "injury from assault," or an injury to a reproductive organ could be described as "lower abdominal injury."
(5) If the employer decides to voluntarily disclose the forms to persons other than government representatives, employees, former employees or authorized representatives (as required by WAC 296-27-02111 and 296-27-03103), the employer must remove or hide the employees' names and other personally identifying information, except for the following cases. The employer may disclose the forms with personally identifying information only:
[Statutory Authority: RCW 49.17.010, 49.17.040, and 49.17.050. WSR 19-17-068, § 296-27-01119, filed 8/20/19, effective 1/1/20; WSR 15-11-066, § 296-27-01119, filed 5/19/15, effective 7/1/15. Statutory Authority: RCW 49.17.010, 49.17.040, 49.17.050, 49.17.060. WSR 07-03-163, § 296-27-01119, filed 1/24/07, effective 4/1/07; WSR 03-24-085, § 296-27-01119, filed 12/2/03, effective 1/1/04; WSR 02-22-029, § 296-27-01119, filed 10/28/02, effective 1/1/03. Statutory Authority: RCW 49.17.010, [49.17].040, and [49.17].050. WSR 02-01-064, § 296-27-01119, filed 12/14/01, effective 1/1/02.]
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Other injury and illness recordkeeping requirements.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 49.17.010, [49.17].040, and [49.17].050. WSR 02-01-064, § 296-27-021, filed 12/14/01, effective 1/1/02.]
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If your business changes ownership, you are responsible for recording and reporting work-related injuries and illnesses only for that period of the year during which you owned the establishment. You must transfer these records to the new owner. The new owner must save all records of the establishment kept by the prior owner, as required by WAC 296-27-02107, but need not update or correct the records of the prior owner.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 49.17.010, [49.17].040, and [49.17].050. WSR 02-01-064, § 296-27-02109, filed 12/14/01, effective 1/1/02.]
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(1) The employer must provide copies of the records within four business hours when an authorized government representative asks for the records you keep under this section.
(2) If the employer maintains the records at a location in a different time zone, they may use the business hours of the establishment at which the records are located when calculating the deadline.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 49.17.010, 49.17.040, and 49.17.050. WSR 19-17-068, § 296-27-03101, filed 8/20/19, effective 1/1/20; WSR 15-11-066, § 296-27-03101, filed 5/19/15, effective 7/1/15; WSR 02-01-064, § 296-27-03101, filed 12/14/01, effective 1/1/02.]
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Appendix B—Annual electronic submission of OSHA Form 300A.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 49.17.010, 49.17.040, and 49.17.050. WSR 19-17-068, § 296-27-071, filed 8/20/19, effective 1/1/20.]