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Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-24 - General safety and health standards › Part L - ELECTRICAL › Section 296-24-975 - Selection and use of work practices

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(1)
General.
You must employ safety-related work practices to prevent
				electric shock or other injuries resulting from either direct or indirect
				electrical contacts, when work is performed near or on equipment or circuits
				which are or may be energized. The specific safety-related work practices must
				be consistent with the nature and extent of the associated electrical hazards.
(a)
Deenergized parts.
You must
				deenergize live parts to which an employee may be exposed shall be deenergized
				before the employee works on or near them, unless the employer can demonstrate
				that deenergizing introduces additional or increased hazards or is infeasible
				due to equipment design or operational limitations. Live parts that operate at
				less than 50 volts to ground need not be deenergized if there will be no
				increased exposure to electrical burns or to explosion due to electric arcs.
Note 1: Examples of increased or additional hazards include
				  interruption of life support equipment, deactivation of emergency alarm
				  systems, shutdown of hazardous location ventilation equipment, or removal of
				  illumination for an area.
Note 2: Examples of work that may be performed on or near
				  energized circuit parts because of infeasibility due to equipment design or
				  operational limitations include testing of electric circuits that can only be
				  performed with the circuit energized and work on circuits that form an integral
				  part of a continuous industrial process in a chemical plant that would
				  otherwise need to be completely shut down in order to permit work on one
				  circuit or piece of equipment.
Note 3: Work on or near deenergized parts is covered by
				  subsection (2) of this section.
(b)
Energized parts.
If the
				exposed live parts are not deenergized (i.e., for reasons of increased or
				additional hazards or infeasibility), you must use other safety-related work
				practices to protect employees who may be exposed to the electrical hazards
				involved. Such work practices must protect employees against contact with
				energized circuit parts directly with any part of their body or indirectly
				through some other conductive object. The work practices that are used must be
				suitable for the conditions under which the work is to be performed and for the
				voltage level of the exposed electric conductors or circuit parts. Specific
				work practice requirements are detailed in WAC
				296-24-960.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-24 - General safety and health standards › Part L - ELECTRICAL › Section 296-24-980 - Safeguards for personnel protection

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(1)
Use of protective equipment.
(a)
Personal protective equipment.
(i) You must provide employees working in
				areas where there are potential electrical hazards with electrical protective
				equipment that is appropriate for the specific parts of the body to be
				protected and for the work to be performed, and you must ensure that they use
				such protective equipment.
Note: Personal protective equipment requirements are
				  contained in chapter 296-24 WAC Part L, and WAC
				  296-800-160.
(ii) You must maintain protective equipment
				in a safe, reliable condition and you must periodically inspect or test it, as
				required by chapter 296-24 WAC Part L, and WAC
				296-800-160.
(iii) If the insulating capability of
				protective equipment may be subject to damage during use, you must protect the
				insulating material. (For example, an outer covering of leather is sometimes
				used for the protection of rubber insulating material.)
(iv) Employees must wear nonconductive head
				protection wherever there is a danger of head injury from electric shock or
				burns due to contact with exposed energized parts.
(v) Employees must wear protective equipment
				for the eyes or face wherever there is danger of injury to the eyes or face
				from electric arcs or flashes or from flying objects resulting from electrical
				explosion.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-27 - Recordkeeping and reporting › Section 296-27-00101 - Purpose and scope

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(1)Chapter 296-27
			 WAC requires employers to record work-related injuries and illnesses, 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.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-27 - Recordkeeping and reporting › Section 296-27-00103 - Partial exemption for employers with ten or fewer employees

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(1)
If your company had ten or fewer employees at all times during
				the last calendar year, you do not need to keep injury and illness records
				unless DOSH, OSHA, or the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) informs you in
				writing that you must keep records under this section. However, as required by
				WAC 296-27-031, all employers covered
				by WISHA must report any work-related incident that results in a fatality, inpa-tient hospitalization, amputation, or the loss of an eye.
(a) The partial exemption for size is based
			 on the number of employees in the entire company.
(b) To determine if you are exempt because of
			 size, you need to determine your company's peak employment during the last
			 calendar year. If you had no more than ten employees at any time in the last
			 calendar year, your company qualifies for the partial exemption for
			 size.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-27 - Recordkeeping and reporting › Section 296-27-00107 - Keeping records for more than one agency

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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 .
				  02-01-064, § 296-27-00107, filed 12/14/01, effective
				  1/1/02.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-27 - Recordkeeping and reporting › Section 296-27-00109

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Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				   49.17.010,
				  49.17.040,
				  49.17.050,
				  49.17.060. 09-01-158, §
				  296-27-00109, filed 12/23/08, effective 3/1/09. Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				   49.17.010,[49.17].040, and [49.17].050.
				  02-01-064, § 296-27-00109, filed 12/14/01, effective
				  1/1/02.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-27 - Recordkeeping and reporting › Section 296-27-011 - Recordkeeping forms and recording criteria

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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 .
				  02-01-064, § 296-27-011, filed 12/14/01, effective
				  1/1/02.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-27 - Recordkeeping and reporting › Section 296-27-01101 - Recording criteria

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(1) Employers
			 required to keep records by this chapter must record each fatality, injury and
			 illness that:
(a)Is work-related, see WAC
			 296-27-01103;
(b)Is a new case, see WAC
			 296-27-01105;
			 and
(c)Meets one or more of the
			 general recording criteria of WAC
			 296-27-01107.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-27 - Recordkeeping and reporting › Section 296-27-01105 - Determination of new cases

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(1) The
			 employer must consider an injury or illness to be a "new case" if:
(a) The employee has not previously
			 experienced a recorded injury or illness of the same type that affects the same
			 part of the body; or
(b) The
			 employee previously experienced a recorded injury or illness of the same type
			 that affected the same part of the body but had recovered completely (all signs
			 and symptoms had disappeared) from the previous injury or illness, and an event
			 or exposure in the work environment caused the signs or symptoms to
			 reappear.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-27 - Recordkeeping and reporting › Section 296-27-01107 - General recording criteria

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(1)
			 The employer must consider an injury or illness to meet the general recording
			 criteria, and therefore to be recordable, if it results in any of the
			 following:
(a)Death;
(b)Days away from work;
(c)Restricted work or transfer to another
			 job;
(d)Medical treatment beyond
			 first aid;
(e)Loss of consciousness
			 for any length of time.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-27 - Recordkeeping and reporting › Section 296-27-01109 - Recording criteria for needlestick and sharps injuries

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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:
(a)The classification of the case from an
			 injury to an illness; and
(b)The
			 description to identify the infectious disease.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-27 - Recordkeeping and reporting › Section 296-27-01111 - Recording criteria for medical removal cases

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(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.
Notes:
1. Standards that do not include medical removal
						provisions include bloodborne pathogens and noise.
2. Standards that cover specific chemical substances have
						medical removal provisions. These standards include, but are not limited to,
						lead, cadmium, methylene chloride, formaldehyde, and benzene.
3. If you voluntarily remove an employee from exposure
						before the medical removal criteria are met, you do not have to record the
						case.
1. Standards that do not include medical removal provisions
				  include bloodborne pathogens and noise.
2. Standards that cover specific chemical substances have
				  medical removal provisions. These standards include, but are not limited to,
				  lead, cadmium, methylene chloride, formaldehyde, and benzene.
3. If you voluntarily remove an employee from exposure be
				  fore the medical removal criteria are met, you do not have to record the
				  case.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-27 - Recordkeeping and reporting › Section 296-27-01113 - Recording criteria for occupational hearing loss cases

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(1) The employer must record a hearing loss
			 case on the OSHA 300 Log and check the column for hearing loss if an employee's
			 hearing test (audiogram) reveals that a work-related standard threshold shift
			 (STS) has occurred in one or both ears. Audiometric testing is required by
			 chapter 296-817 WAC, Hearing loss prevention (noise).
(2) Minimum recordable hearing thresholds. It
			 is not required to record an STS when the average threshold level for the
			 employee's current audiogram at 2000 Hz, 3000 Hz, and 4000 Hz average less than
			 25 dB. No age adjustment is allowed for this determination.
(3) Age related hearing loss. The employer
			 may age adjust the employee's current audiogram results by using Tables A-1 or
			 A-2 in Appendix A of this chapter to determine if it must be recorded
			 (evaluations from WAC
			 296-817-20035(3)
			 are still required). Compare the age-adjusted audiogram to the employee's
			 original baseline audio-gram or the last audiogram that resulted in a
			 recordable STS (do not age adjust the baseline or previously recorded
			 audiogram). If the average threshold shift at 2000, 3000, and 4000 Hz from the
			 original baseline or previously recorded audiogram to the current age adjusted
			 audiogram is less than 10 dB, the hearing loss case is not required to be
			 recorded.
(4) The employer is not
			 required to record the hearing loss case on the OSHA 300 Log if they retest the
			 employee's hearing within thirty days of the first test, and the retest does
			 not confirm the STS. If the retest confirms the STS, the employer must record
			 the hearing loss illness within seven calendar days of the retest. If
			 subsequent audiometric testing indicates that an STS is not persistent, the
			 employer may erase or line-out the recorded entry.
(5) Work-relatedness.
(a) The employer must consider the case to be
			 work-related if an event or exposure in the work environment either caused or
			 contributed to the hearing loss or significantly aggravated a preexisting
			 hearing loss.
(b) The employer is
			 not required to consider the case work-related or recordable if a physician or
			 other licensed health care professional determines, following the rules set out
			 in WAC
			 296-27-01103
			 Determination of work-relatedness, that the hearing loss is not work-related or
			 has not been significantly aggravated by occupational noise exposure.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-27 - Recordkeeping and reporting › Section 296-27-01115 - Recording criteria for work-related tuberculosis cases

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The employer must record a tuberculosis (TB) case on the OSHA
				300 Log by checking the "respiratory condition" column if any employee has been
				occupationally exposed to anyone with a known case of active TB, and that
				employee subsequently develops a TB infection that is confirmed by a positive
				skin test or diagnosis by a physician or other licensed health care
				professional.
Notes:
1. The employer does not have to record a positive TB skin
						test result obtained at a preemployment physical because the employee was not
						occupationally exposed to a known case of active TB in your workplace.
2. The employer may line-out or erase a TB case from the
						log under the following circumstances:
a. The worker contracted TB while living in a household
						with a person who had been previously diagnosed with active TB;
b. The public health department has identified the worker
						as a contact of an individual with a case of active TB unrelated to the
						workplace; or
c. A medical investigation shows that the employee's
						infection was caused by exposure to TB away from work, or proves that the case
						was not related to the workplace TB exposure.
1. You do not have to record a positive TB skin test result
				  obtained at a preemployment physical because the employee was not
				  occupationally exposed to a known case of active TB in your workplace.
2. You may line-out or erase a TB case from the log under
				  the following circumstances:
a. The worker contracted TB while living in a household with
				  a person who had been previously diagnosed with active TB;
b. The public health department has identified the worker as
				  a contact of an individual with a case of active TB unrelated to the workplace;
				  or
c. A medical investigation shows that the employee's
				  infection was caused by exposure to TB away from work, or proves that the case
				  was not related to the workplace TB
				  exposure.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-27 - Recordkeeping and reporting › Section 296-27-01119 - Forms

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(1) The employer
			 must use the following OSHA forms (or equivalent forms), for recording
			 work-related injuries and illnesses:
(a) OSHA
			 300, Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses;
(b) OSHA 300-A, Summary of Work-Related
			 Injuries and Illnesses; and
(c)OSHA
			 301, Injury and Illness Incident Report.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-27 - Recordkeeping and reporting › Section 296-27-021 - Other injury and illness recordkeeping requirements

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Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				  49.17.010, [49.17].040, and[49.17].050 .
				  02-01-064, § 296-27-021, filed 12/14/01, effective
				  1/1/02.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-27 - Recordkeeping and reporting › Section 296-27-02101 - Multiple business establishments

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(1)
			 The employer must keep a separate OSHA 300 Log for each establishment that is
			 expected to be in operation for one year or longer.
(2) The employer must keep injury and illness
			 records for short-term establishments (i.e., establishments that will exist for
			 less than a year). The employer does not have to keep a separate OSHA 300 Log
			 for each such establishment. The employer may keep one OSHA 300 Log that covers
			 all of your short-term establishments. The employer may also include the
			 short-term establishments' recordable injuries and illnesses on an OSHA 300 Log
			 that covers short-term establishments for individual company divisions or
			 geographic regions.
(3) If the
			 employer keeps records for an establishment at their headquarters or other
			 central location, the employer must be able to:
(a)Transmit information about the injuries
			 and illnesses from the establishment to the central location within seven
			 calendar days of receiving information that a recordable injury or illness has
			 occurred;
and
(b)Produce and send the records from the
			 central location to the establishment within the time frames required by WAC
			 296-27-02111,
			 296-27-03101(1),
			 and
			 296-27-03103
			 when the employer is required to provide records to a government
			 representative, employees, former employees, or employee
			 representatives.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-27 - Recordkeeping and reporting › Section 296-27-02103 - Covered employees

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(1) The
			 employer must record on the OSHA 300 Log the recordable injuries and illnesses
			 of all employees on their payroll, whether they are labor, executive, hourly,
			 salary, part-time, seasonal, or migrant workers. The employer also must record
			 the recordable injuries and illnesses that occur to employees who are not on
			 their payroll if you supervise these employees on a day-to-day basis. If the
			 employer's business is organized as a sole proprietorship or partnership, the
			 owner or partners are not considered employees for recordkeeping purposes.
Note:
If a self-employed person is injured or becomes ill while
						working for you, the employer is not required to report the injury or illness
						because they are not covered under WISHA or the recordkeeping requirements.
(2) The
			 employer must record injuries and illnesses of employees from a temporary help
			 service, employee-leasing service, or personnel supply service if they
			 supervise these employees on a day-to-day basis.
(3) The employer must record an injury or
			 illness of a contractor's employee who is working in your establishment if they
			 supervise them on a day-to-day basis. However, if the contractor's employee is
			 under the day-today supervision of the contractor, the contractor is
			 responsible for recording the injury or illness.
(4) The employer must make sure that each
			 injury and illness is recorded only once:
(a)
			 Either on their OSHA 300 Log (if they provide day-to-day supervision);
			 or
(b)On the other employer's OSHA
			 300 Log (if that company provides day-to-day supervision).
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-27 - Recordkeeping and reporting › Section 296-27-02105 - Annual summary

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(1) At the end of
			 each calendar year, the employer must:
(a)Review the OSHA 300 Log to verify that the
			 entries are complete and accurate, and correct any deficiencies
			 identified;
(b)Use the OSHA 300-A
			 Log or equivalent form of your recorded injuries and illnesses to create your
			 annual summary;
(c)Certify the
			 annual summary; and
(d)Post the
			 annual summary.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-27 - Recordkeeping and reporting › Section 296-27-02107 - Retention and updating

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(1) The
			 employer must save the OSHA 300 Log, the privacy case list (if one exists), the
			 OSHA 300-A Annual Summary, and the OSHA 301 Incident Report forms for five
			 years following the end of the calendar year that each of these records
			 cover.
(2) The employer must update
			 your stored OSHA 300 Logs during the five-year retention period to include
			 newly discovered recordable injuries or illnesses and to show any changes that
			 have occurred in the classification of previously recorded injuries and
			 illnesses. If the description or outcome of a case changes, the employer must
			 remove or line-out the original entry and enter the new information.
Note:
During the five-year retention period, the employer is not
						required to update the OSHA 300-A Annual Summary of Work-Related Injuries or
						Illnesses, or the OSHA 301 Incident Reports, but you may do so if you wish.
During the five-year retention period, you are not required
				  to update the OSHA 300-A Annual Summary of Work-Related Injuries or Illnesses,
				  or the OSHA 301 Incident Reports, but you may do so if you
				  wish.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-27 - Recordkeeping and reporting › Section 296-27-02109 - Change in business ownership

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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 .
				  02-01-064, § 296-27-02109, filed 12/14/01, effective
				  1/1/02.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-27 - Recordkeeping and reporting › Section 296-27-02111 - Employee involvement

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(1) Your
			 employees and their representatives must be involved in the recordkeeping
			 system in several ways. The employer must do the following:
(a)Inform each employee of how they are to
			 report an injury or illness to you.
(b)Provide employees with the information
			 described in subsection (2) of this section.
(c)Provide access to your injury and illness
			 records for your employees and their representatives as described in subsection
			 (3) of this section.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-27 - Recordkeeping and reporting › Section 296-27-02113 - Prohibition against discrimination

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(1)
			 The WISH Act prohibits employers from discriminating against an employee for
			 reporting a work-related fatality, injury or illness. It also protects the
			 employee who files a safety and health complaint, or asks for access to chapter
			 296-27 WAC records, or otherwise exercises any rights afforded under this
			 act.
(2) DOSH may not issue an
			 injury and illness record-keeping variance to a private sector employer.
			 However, DOSH must recognize all recordkeeping variances issued by federal
			 OSHA.
(3)DOSH may only grant an
			 injury and illness recording and reporting variance to a state or local
			 government employer within the state after obtaining approval to grant the
			 variance from federal OSHA.
Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				   49.17.010, [49.17].040, and[49.17].050 .
				  02-01-064, § 296-27-02113, filed 12/14/01, effective
				  1/1/02.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-27 - Recordkeeping and reporting › Section 296-27-02117 - Variances from the recordkeeping rule

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(1) If the employer wishes to keep records in
			 a different manner from that prescribed in this section, the employer may
			 submit a variance petition to the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational
			 Safety and Health, U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, DC 20210. The employer
			 can obtain a variance only if they can show that their alternative
			 recordkeeping system:
(a) Collects the same
			 information as this section requires;
(b) Meets the purposes of the federal
			 Occupational Safety and Health Act; and
(c)Does not interfere with the administration
			 of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Act.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-27 - Recordkeeping and reporting › Section 296-27-031 - Reporting fatalities, inpatient hospitalizations, amputations, and losses of an eye as the result of work-related incidents

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(1) The employer must report to DOSH within
			 eight hours of a work-related incident that results in:
(a)A fatality; or
(b)An inpatient hospitalization of any
			 employee.
Notes:
1. Secure the scene of work-related events that result in
						the death or inpatient hospitalization of any worker, refer to WA C
						296-800-320.
2. Do not move equipment involved (i.e., personal
						protective equipment (PPE), tools, machinery or other equipment), unless it is
						necessary to remove the victim or prevent further injuries, refer to WAC
						296-800-32010.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-27 - Recordkeeping and reporting › Section 296-27-03101 - Providing records to government representatives

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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 .
				  02-01-064, § 296-27-03101, filed 12/14/01, effective
				  1/1/02.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-27 - Recordkeeping and reporting › Section 296-27-03103 - Electronic submission of injury and illness records to OSHA

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Note:
The information required by this section is reported and
						tracked by OSHA for their own injury and illness data analysis. DOSH is not
						notified when employers submit this information to OSHA.
(1)
Summary
			 of basic requirements.
(a)Annual
			 electronic submission of OSHA Form 300A Summary of Work-Related Injuries and
			 Illnesses by establishments that employed two hundred fifty or more different
			 employees. If your establishment employed two hundred fifty or more different
			 employees during the course of the previous calendar year, and this chapter
			 requires your establishment to keep records, then you must electronically
			 submit information from OSHA Form 300A Summary of Work-Related Injuries and
			 Illnesses to OSHA or OSHA's designee.
(b)Annual electronic submission of OSHA Form
			 300A Summary of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses by establishments that
			 both; employed twenty to two hundred forty-nine different employees, and are in
			 designated industries. If your establishment employed twenty to two hundred
			 forty-nine different employees during the course of the previous calendar year,
			 and your establishment is in a designated industry listed in WAC
			 296-27-071 Appendix B, then you
			 must electronically submit information from OSHA Form 300A Summary of
			 Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses to OSHA or OSHA's designee.
(c)Electronic submission of OSHA 300A records
			 upon notification. All establishments not meeting the criteria of (a) or (b) of
			 this subsection, must, upon notification; electronically submit the information
			 from your OSHA 300A to OSHA or OSHA's designee.
(d)Electronic submission of the employer
			 identification number (EIN). When electronically reporting injury and illness
			 records, the employer must also provide the EIN or federal tax identification
			 number used by the establishment.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-27 - Recordkeeping and reporting › Section 296-27-03105 - Requests from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for data

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(1) If you receive
			 a Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses form from the BLS, or a BLS
			 designee, you must promptly complete the form and return it following the
			 instructions contained on the survey form.
(2) Each year, the BLS sends injury and
			 illness survey forms to randomly selected employers and uses the information to
			 create the nation's occupational injury and illness statistics. In any year,
			 some employers will receive a BLS survey form and others will not. You do not
			 have to send injury and illness data to the BLS unless you receive a survey
			 form.
(3) If you receive a Survey
			 of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses form from the BLS, or a BLS designee,
			 you must promptly complete the form and return it, following the instructions
			 contained on the survey form.
(4)
			 If you are exempt from keeping injury and illness records under WAC
			 296-27-00103 through
			 296-27-00107, the BLS may inform
			 you in writing that it will be collecting injury and illness information from
			 you in the coming year. If you receive such a letter, you must keep the injury
			 and illness records required by WAC
			 296-27-01103 through
			 296-27-01115 and make a survey
			 report for the year covered by the survey.
(5) Washington state employers must respond
			 to the BLS survey form if they receive one.
Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				   49.17.010, [49.17].040, and[49.17].050 .
				  02-01-064, § 296-27-03105, filed 12/14/01, effective
				  1/1/02.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-27 - Recordkeeping and reporting › Section 296-27-041

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Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				   49.17.010, [49.17].040, and[49.17].050 .
				  02-01-064, § 296-27-041, filed 12/14/01, effective
				  1/1/02.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-27 - Recordkeeping and reporting › Section 296-27-04101

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Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				   49.17.010, [49.17].040, and[49.17].050 .
				  02-01-064, § 296-27-04101, filed 12/14/01, effective
				  1/1/02.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-27 - Recordkeeping and reporting › Section 296-27-04103

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Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				   49.17.010, [49.17].040, and[49.17].050 .
				  02-01-064, § 296-27-04103, filed 12/14/01, effective
				  1/1/02.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-27 - Recordkeeping and reporting › Section 296-27-051

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Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				   49.17.010, [49.17].040, and[49.17].050 .
				  02-01-064, § 296-27-051, filed 12/14/01, effective
				  1/1/02.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-27 - Recordkeeping and reporting › Section 296-27-05101

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Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				   49.17.010, [49.17].040, and[49.17].050 .
				  02-01-064, § 296-27-05101, filed 12/14/01, effective
				  1/1/02.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-27 - Recordkeeping and reporting › Section 296-27-061 - Nonmandatory Appendix A - Age adjustment calculations for comparing audiograms for recording hearing loss

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These computations may only be used for comparison of
				audiograms to record hearing loss on the OSHA 300 Log. This appendix is
				non-mandatory.
(1)In determining
			 whether a recordable threshold shift has occurred, allowance may be made for
			 the contribution of aging to the change in hearing level by adjusting the most
			 recent audiogram. If you choose to adjust the audiogram, you must follow the
			 procedure described below. This procedure and the age correction tables were
			 developed by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in the
			 criteria document entitled "Criteria for a Recommended
			 Stan-dard&Occupational Exposure to Noise," ((HSM)-11001).
(2)For each audiometric test frequency:
(a) Determine from Tables A-1 or A-2 the age
			 correction values for the employee by:
(i)
			 Finding the age at which the most recent audiogram was taken and recording the
			 corresponding values of age corrections at 1000 Hz through 6000 Hz;
(ii) Finding the age at which the baseline
			 audio-gram was taken and recording the corresponding values of age corrections
			 at 1000 Hz through 6000 Hz.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-27 - Recordkeeping and reporting › Section 296-27-071 - Appendix B-Annual electronic submission of OSHA Form 300A

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Table 3
Designated Industries
NAICS
INDUSTRY
11
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
22
Utilities
23
Construction
31-33
Manufacturing
42
Wholesale trade
4413
Automotive parts accessories, and tire stores
4421
Furniture stores
4422
Home furnishings stores
4441
Building material and supplies dealers
4442
Lawn and garden equipment and supplies stores
4451
Grocery stores
4452
Specialty food stores
4521
Department stores
4529
Other general merchandise stores
4533
Used merchandise stores
4542
Vending machine operators
4543
Direct selling establishments
4811
Scheduled air transportation
4841
General freight trucking
4842
Specialized freight trucking
4851
Urban transit systems
4852
Interurban and rural bus transportation
4853
Taxi and limousine service
4854
School and employee bus transportation
4855
Charter bus industry
4859
Other transit and ground passenger transportation
4871
Scenic and sightseeing transportation, land
4881
Support activities for air transportation
4882
Support activities for rail transportation
4883
Support activities for water transportation
4884
Support activities for road transportation
4889
Other support activities for transportation
4911
Postal service
4921
Couriers and express delivery services
4922
Local messengers and local delivery
4931
Warehousing and storage
5152
Cable and other subscription programming
5311
Lessors of real estate
5321
Automotive equipment rental and leasing
5322
Consumer goods rental
5323
General rental centers
5617
Services to buildings and dwellings
5621
Waste collection
5622
Waste treatment and disposal
5629
Remediation and other waste management services
6219
Other ambulatory health care services
6221
General medical and surgical hospitals
6222
Psychiatric and substance abuse hospitals
6223
Specialty (except psychiatric and substance abuse)
						hospitals
6231
Nursing care facilities
6232
Residential mental retardation, mental health and
						substance abuse facilities
6233
Community care facilities for the elderly
6239
Other residential care facilities
6242
Community food and housing, and emergency and other relief
						services
6243
Vocational rehabilitation services
7111
Performing arts companies
7112
Spectator sports
7121
Museums, historical sites, and similar institutions
7131
Amusement parks and arcades
7132
Gambling industries
7211
Traveler accommodation
7212
RV (recreational vehicle) parks and recreational camps
7213
Rooming and boarding houses
7223
Special food services
8113
Commercial and industrial machinery and equipment (except
						automotive and electronic) repair and maintenance
8123
Dry-cleaning and laundry services
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-30 - Rules for the administration of the crime victims compensation program › Section 296-30-020

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Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				   7.68.020 and
				  7.68.030. 99-07-004, §
				  296-30-020, filed 3/4/99, effective 4/4/99. Statutory Authority:
				  Chapter
				  7.68 RCW. 94-02-015, §
				  296-30-020, filed 12/23/93, effective 1/24/94; 86-01-028 (Order 85-37), §
				  296-30-020, filed 12/11/85; 85-03-060 (Order 85-3), § 296-30-020, filed
				  1/15/85.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-30 - Rules for the administration of the crime victims compensation program › Section 296-30-060 - Who does a victim report the crime to in order to meet reporting requirements?

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The crime can be reported to any of the following:
(1) Local law enforcement (city, county or
			 state police agencies);
(2) Federal
			 police;
(3) Indian tribal
			 police;
(4) Military police;
			 or
(5) Child protective services
			 (CPS) when they have reported to local police.
Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				  7.68.060(1)(b) and
				  7.68.030. 99-07-004, §
				  296-30-060, filed 3/4/99, effective 4/4/99. Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				   51.36.010,
				  7.68.030,
				  51.04.020(1) and
				  (4),
				  51.04.030,
				  7.68.080 and
				  7.68.120. 97-02-090, §
				  296-30-060, filed 12/31/96, effective 1/31/97. Statutory Authority:
				  Chapter
				  7.68 RCW. 94-02-015, §
				  296-30-060, filed 12/23/93, effective 1/24/94; 86-01-028 (Order 85-37), §
				  296-30-060, filed 12/11/85; 85-03-060 (Order 85-3), § 296-30-060, filed
				  1/15/85.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-30 - Rules for the administration of the crime victims compensation program › Section 296-30-080 - Can family members of sexual assault victims receive counseling?

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(1) Counseling for
			 immediate family members of sexual assault victims is appropriate when:
(a) The family member suffers psychological
			 trauma as a result of the sexual assault; or
(b) Counseling the family member will help
			 the client's recovery.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-30 - Rules for the administration of the crime victims compensation program › Section 296-30-081 - What are the general obligations of a provider who provides medical or mental health services to a crime victim?

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(1) When treating a crime victim who comes
			 under our jurisdiction, you agree to accept and comply with the department's
			 rules and fees.
(a) All providers must comply
			 with this chapter and the department's medical aid rules and fee
			 schedules.
(b) Mental health
			 providers must comply with this chapter, the department's medical aid rules and
			 fee schedules, and the
Crime Victims Compensation Programs Mental
			 Health Treatment Rules and Fees
.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-30 - Rules for the administration of the crime victims compensation program › Section 296-30-085 - What is different about billing for a crime victim claimant?

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(1) Providers must
			 qualify as approved providers and register with the crime victims compensation
			 program before they are authorized to provide treatment and receive payment. To
			 register with the crime victims compensation program, you must send us:
(a) A completed provider application and Form
			 W-9.
(b) A legible copy of your
			 professional license, certification and/or registration.
(c) Ph.D.s not licensed as psychologists and
			 master level counselors must provide a legible copy of their degree.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-30 - Rules for the administration of the crime victims compensation program › Section 296-30-087 - Can a victim be billed for expenses related to their claim?

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(1) If claim costs
			 are under the maximum benefit, the claimant should not pay any expenses
			 relating to an allowed claim. Providers must bill the claimant's public or
			 private insurance first, and then bill the department.
EXCEPTION: A provider may require the claimant to pay for
				treatment if the claimant's eligibility is pending. If benefits are authorized,
				and payable by the department, the provider must refund the claimant in
				full.
(2) If claim costs
			 exceed the maximum benefit, the claimant is responsible for expenses.
Statutory Authority:
				  Chapter
				  7.68 RCW. 11-22-054, §
				  296-30-087, filed 10/31/11, effective
				  12/1/11.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-30 - Rules for the administration of the crime victims compensation program › Section 296-30-090 - What are the maximum allowable fees?

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(1)
			 Maximum allowable fees for medical and mental health services are published in
			 the medical aid rules and fee schedules and the crime victims' compensation
			 program mental health fee schedule and billing guidelines less any available
			 benefits of public or private insurance.
(2) The percent of allowed charges for
			 authorized hospital inpatient and outpatient services billed by revenue codes
			 are those rates established by the department.
(3)If sufficient funding is not provided to
			 continue payments equal to the medical aid rules and fee schedules and the
			 crime victims' compensation program mental health fee schedule and billing
			 guidelines, payments will be reduced based on caseload estimates and available
			 funding. The reduced payments will not be less than seventy percent of payments
			 provided under the fee schedules.
(4) If an unforeseeable catastrophic event
			 results in insufficient funding to continue payments equal to the medical aid
			 rules and fee schedules and the crime victims' compensation program mental
			 health fee schedule and billing guidelines, payments will be reduced to not
			 less than seventy percent of payments provided under the fee schedules to the
			 extent the reduction in payments is necessary to fund benefits.
Statutory Authority:
				  Chapter
				  7.68 RCW. 11-22-054, §
				  296-30-090, filed 10/31/11, effective 12/1/11. Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				   7.68.030. 05-16-096, § 296-30-090, filed
				  8/2/05, effective 9/2/05. Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				   7.68.030,
				  7.68.080,
				  7.68.130. 00-03-056, §
				  296-30-090, filed 1/14/00, effective
				  2/14/00.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-30 - Rules for the administration of the crime victims compensation program › Section 296-30-095 - How do the rules and fees apply to out-of-state providers?

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Rules and fees are the same for out-of-state providers as for
				in state providers.
EXCEPTION:
Out-of-state independent medical or mental health
							 examinations are reimbursed at the examiners usual and customary fee.
Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				  7.68.030. 00-03-056, § 296-30-095, filed
				  1/14/00, effective 2/14/00.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-30 - Rules for the administration of the crime victims compensation program › Section 296-30-100 - Will the department notify providers if a fee schedule is amended or established?

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Our web site will be updated at least thirty days in advance
				when we amend or establish a fee schedule.
Statutory Authority:
				  Chapter
				  7.68 RCW. 11-22-054, §
				  296-30-100, filed 10/31/11, effective 12/1/11. Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				   7.68.030. 00-03-056, § 296-30-100, filed
				  1/14/00, effective 2/14/00.