Compliance under OSHA
                     Compliance under OSHA
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OSHA requires employers who are covered under OSHA to give the safe 
workplace for their employees. In order to prove the safe workplace, the 
employers should be in compliance. They should also make sure that the 
employees know their rights on the workplace. Apart from this, OSHA also 
needs employers to meet the reporting and paperwork requirements. If the 
employers don’t comply with these, they will be subjected to penalties and 
fines. So, if you are an employer, you need know the compliance under the 
OSHA from the following information.
Keeping certain records
OSHA have several rules regarding the record keeping; and it varies from 
employer to employer; and one set of rules may be applicable for only a few 
employers. To know them in detail, you have to refer the handbook of OSHA 
record keeping available in the official website of OSHA. But, there are some 
generally applicable record keeping rules such as, keeping the records of 
illness, work related records, or injuries records; and records of the efforts in 
complying with OSHA and their actions for preventing the workplace illness 
and the injuries.
Few exceptions of the record keeping requirements are: if your organization 
have only ten or very few employees, the records are to be kept only if the 
OSHA particularly asks you to do so; and it is even applicable for the low 
hazard service or retail industry such as, advertising or banking.
Reporting serious injuries and deaths
Though the employers are covered by the record keeping requirements or not, 
they have to report about the accident to OSHA within 8 hours after the 
incident took place, if it results in hospitalization or death of three or more 
employees. Complaint can be made through a call to the local OSHA office 
or can be reported directly in person.
Posting information
The employers who are covered under the OSHA should post the information 
such as, an OSHA poster containing the information about the rights and 
obligations of the employees under OSHA, recent actions that OSHA officers 
issued to the employers, employer petition filed for abatement or the 
modification, etc. 
In addition to these, if the employer is covered by the OSHA, record keeping 
of requirements that are explained above is a must. The employer must post 
the log and summary of occupational injuries and illness. Most of the 
employers will need only the poster containing “Job safety and health”, and 
the posters can be obtained from the agency’s website.
Submitting to inspection
As a part of the general enforcement duty or in response to the specific 
complaint, the compliance officer can inspect your workplace, at any time. 
Although you can demand for the warrant from the officer before doing the 
inspection, you need to allow them for inspection once the warrant will be 
given to you by the officer.
During the inspection, if the officer finds that you are violating the law in 
some or other way, they will issue a citation as well as a notification of the 
penalty, which informs you about the exact violation, and sets some proposed 
time for correcting the violation. It proposes a penalty that is however 
nominal.
This is all about the compliance under OSHA.
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